THAT’S BECAUSE WESTERN CIVILIZATION HAS — QUITE DELIBERATELY — ASSUMED THE ROLE OF “WEAK HORSE.” It doesn’t matter if you call it ISIS, ISIL or Islamic State, the extremist brand is winning. Back when the motto was “we have the Maxim gun, and they have not,” non-Western societies tried hard to emulate us, which is why you see those photos of skirted women in record stores in Afghanistan from the 1960s. Now that it’s “cultural sensitivity” and “why do they hate us,” the extremist brand looks viable.