THE RAGE OF FAILURE: “Embittered young Moslems murder innocents throughout the West because that is the only argument they can make for their own society,” Bruce Walker writes at the American Thinker.

I’d add that the nihilism of Western pop culture plays a role as well, but it’s worth noting that all it took were such wholesome elements as Esther Williams, Ricardo Montalban, “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” and a church social in the dry county of Greeley, Colorado to drive Sayyid Qutb, Osama bin Laden’s inspiration utterly insane in 1949.