It will be interesting for decades to come if the historians are ever allowed access to the records of counter-terrorist operations. My guess is that the relative lack of terrorism in the U.S. after 911 is due to a lot of the bad guys just disappearing and never being seen again. What exactly happened to them probably will never be known. Luca Brazzi swims with the fishes?

Nicholas Kristof was mentioned in the article and in his latest article in the NYT he argues against Trump on grounds of morality.

Ok. Here is the logic.

Imagine – not John Lennon’s imagine – The imagination of the Dark Reformation.

No Muslims. No Muslims were ever allowed into America.

Consequence: No 9/11.

Consequence: No Afghanistan War.

Consequence: No Iraq War.

Consequence: No Arab Spring (likely).

Consequence: No ISIS.

Consequence: No Pulse, No San Bern, No Boston.

Consequence: No Drones on Weddings, funerals or families.

In short, approx 1 million Muslims would still be alive. And, yes, maybe a few million more would still be alive by the time this ends – if it ever does.

So, if we were to plot it on a graph.

With rising numbers of Muslims in your country, the violence (domestic and foreign) also rises.

So, if Mr Kristof and his ilk is really concerned with saving Muslims lives, then he should argue for Muslims to not be able to antagonise the 800 pound gorilla that can sit and shit where it wants.

Do people like Kristof, a Harvard man, and a Pulitzer prise winning man ever think about this?

The association with the holocaust is intentional.

The association of the holocaust allows me to bring up Antisemitism.

I then claim that Muslims have a problem with Antisemitism. (Then, i give some key, big ticket example.)

Then, I say that ISIS show a remarkable similarity to the Nazis (and not just that they both end in IS).

Hopefully the interlocutor mentions that the Nazis will say that the Nazis were right-wing fascists.

Then, I spring the trap and say that the Nazis were basically left-wing fascists.

Then I point out all the similarities.

Then, I mention that the left has deep problems with antisemitism. (Give some examples.)

Then, I close by saving I think the left should be ashamed with its alliance with holocaust denial (Oh sorry, did I say holocaust? I mean’t Jihad denial) and its alliance with fascism.

That is how I take on folks rhetorically.

The article you mention has an academic saying it is a “fictions” war.

One idea I had (just a thought) is that these useless mouths have to say this because if it was a war, then we have no need of sociologists.

So, maybe their behaviour is to be explained adaptively, rather than a product of pure delusion.