Victor Davis Hanson. Oh man does he have a good column today over at National Review Online.

You have to read it. I will only post a teaser or two:

For a suicide bomber like Mohammed Atta, the more he bumped into the West and used its bounties, the more he despised us for his own hypocrisy of enjoying what his culture could not make or allow. [empahsis mine] There was no law forcing Mr. Atta to go study in Germany or visit the United States or to wear Western clothes and use our technology; he did so on his own free volition – and later despised himself for doing so.

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Abroad, we battle Islamic fascists who hate us for our success and want to kill us with the tools of the modern world they despise. [emphasis mine] But at home, we are also at odds with our own privileged guilt-ridden aristocracy, whose very munificence has made them misunderstand why they are hated.

The Islamists insist, “We kill you for being soft.” Westerners in response feel, “We are killed because we are not being soft enough.”

And so they riot and kill in Afghanistan over a stupid rumor, and we seek to apologize that it somehow spread.

How truly sad.

Once again, he nails it. I would have spent years and endless essays trying to say what he says in this column.