By Arlene Peck

For the past several years, I have pounded out columns lamenting that the world is in a war that so few seem to be "getting". The enemy is a savage culture that I believe has the IQ and mentality of seventh century barbarians.

Aside from the Muslim longing to return to the good old seventh century, and their stated intention of dragging the rest of us, kicking and screaming, along with them, it has bothered me, and still does, that far too many politically correct imbeciles feel compelled to accommodate them and to find rationales for their violence. We refuse to educate ourselves on their agenda or take them at their word.

Maybe if we took lessons in sound bites it might sink in that we have been thrust into a war that is destined to last decades. We might also realise that it is time to learn about our enemies, what they stand for, what they believe in and what they do not.

The world press, rather than reporting the news, has taken it upon themselves to create the news, lest their readers become too emotionally affected by the subject matter - the barbaric creeds of 1.3 billion people. Moreover, I have discovered that it is possible to be a thousand years behind the times; it is also possible to be cunning and shrewd. The terrorists have mastered the strategy of knowing the Achilles heel of their enemy.

Well, after a two month sabbatical - caused by tripping when running to answer the phone and breaking my arm in six places - I have had some enforced quality thinking time. I think I finally understand why I had been one of the few, until now, who were ‘getting it’, when it came to the goals of destruction of the Western world by the Muslim culture.

A word slowly bubbled up to the surface of my pain and drug induced consciousness - apathy! I used to watch commercials on television promoting the purple, happy pill for every dysfunction known to modern man. So what if it caused heartburn, heart attacks, sexual disorders, constipation and halitosis? The happy pill can make you forget what ails you, and everyone can stay oblivious and happy.

It is probably a blessing that I have been living in my own cocoon recently. After going to a screening of Spielberg’s new movie “Munich”, where naughty little Steven morphs into Barbara Streisand and, hey presto, the terrorists are victims, I might have become upset!

Fortunately, years of living in this politically correct cocoon, California, watching news reports better suited to “The Enquirer” mentality and listening to “leaders” speak in sound bites to accommodate an audience which, apparently, has the attention span of a gnat, I’ve grown accustomed to ‘the vacuum’ of competence.

I have been living in California long enough to know this is a section of the country that can feel passionate about Botox and animals. However, when it comes to anything political, especially when it concerns Israel, they could not find it on the map.

So, when the benevolent president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the owner of 70 million genocidal serfs, announces his grand plan to lead all 1.3 billion Arab and Muslim zealots in blowing Israel off the map, why be surprised when it doesn’t measure on the Richter scale of SoCal? More important is the fact Jessica Simpson is getting a divorce and Jennifer Anniston and Angelina Jolie both want to start families this year, with or without husbands.

Doesn't matter anyway. We've all ‘dumbed down’ so much that Ahmadinejad is just another Middle Eastern leader whose name nobody can pronounce. Maybe if shock tabloids trumpeted “Hitler found in comprising position with Kofi Annan in Iranian love nest?”

While he was ranting about World War II and the massacre of the Jews being a myth, Kofi Annan and company were sitting pompously at the United Nations. Behind them, on the dais, was an Arabic-language “Map of Palestine” that showed a Palestine replacing Israel. Despite – oh gosh, how many “resolutions’ is it’, ratifying Israel’s existence? - it now seems everyone is behind the plan to eliminate the Jewish State.

But, now that it's finally sunk into my head that not only is nobody out there but Israel to do anything, folks, they're not doing it either! Where are the press statements issuing from Israel, advising each of the other Middle Eastern countries that although Israel always strives for peace, if one of them thinks about dropping a nuke on Israeli soil, they would pay BIG time? Israel would bring about the destruction of each major Arab and Iranian city as well as the mosques in Jerusalem, Mecca and Medina. Now that might just get their attention.