I’ll remember it the next time a Saudi charity funds an ABG/AlQaeda terrorist to bomb a Philippine airline or a passenger ferry, a mall in Manila (several), or a cathedral in Zamboanga (last week).

A complex mix of terrorists who use a Marxist like ideology disguised as Islam declared war on the west thirty years ago. The US just noticed it in 2001.

Now, what do you propose to do about it?

Ignore it, like Bill Clinton? That is Ivan Eland’s solution. Well, we see how that worked.

Use the police? Hate to tell you, but they are using the police. And the banks. And using a “carrot and stick” approach in a dozen countries (or didn’t they notice this?)

Finally, your readers should be aware that “historian Gareth Porter” is a specialist in SE Asia, not Islam or the Middle East. He has a book that denies the massacres of Hue and the killing fields of Cambodia.

Nope, just a million dead people, nothing to see here, just move along…