Name:   MartiniMan - Subject:   You are too modest..... Date:   3/22/2016 4:23:30 PM

I would say you underestimated your reflections on the Belgium attacks......they are really good reflections.  I think where we are totally missing the boat is understanding what is at work here with Islam.  If you haven't already read The Looming Tower by Lawrence Wright you have to get it.  It should be required reading for everyone in government (political or civil service) that has anything to do with our security.  Europe is committing societal suicide by allowing Muslim immigration.  These people adhere to a 6th century belief system that is totally at odds with modernity and civilized behavior.  The percentage of Muslims that believe in Sharia law and the lesser percentage, although still in the hundreds of millions, that believe in jihad should be enough.  

I have little faith that this will be anything more than a bump in the road for the demise of Europe.  They have lost their way, lost their belief in God and are doomed.  And we are not much better off where our current president is doing the wave at a baseball game in Cuba with ruthless dictators and Hillary's first instinct was to warn us not to respond too forcefully to this threat.  Trump and Cruz have both been very good about this issue but as you pointed out in your closing line, I am not sure America is much better off than Europe.