At FrontPageMag.com, Jamie Glazov interviews Caroline B. Glick, the senior Middle East Fellow at the Center for Security Policy in Washington, DC and the deputy managing editor of The Jerusalem Post, asking what are the threats facing the world today and what can the West do about them.

There are four basic threats facing the world today. The first is Iran’s quest for regional dominance and global prominence which it advances primarily through the support of Islamist insurgencies regionally and the proliferation of nuclear weapons. Second is the totalitarian jihadist ideology which is ascendant throughout the Islamic world. Third is the West’s inability to break its dependence on Arab oil. And fourth is the West’s cultural insecurity and malaise and increasingly, its self-hatred.

The first two threats are physical and ideological challenges to the West’s survival. The third – the West’s economic dependence on Arab oil – has brought about the perverse situation where the free world is bankrolling its enemies’ war efforts. And the fourth, Western cultural malaise which is approaching collapse in Europe and among the American and Israeli intellectual and cultural elites makes it impossible for nations to defend themselves against the physical threats, to consider ways to actively replace oil as the primary energy source for our economies, or to present a coherent and attractive alternative to Islamic totalitarianism for Muslim societies and minorities in the West.

The answers to ‘what can we do?’ aren’t going to go down very well with the Obamanians, the KOSites and anyone else on the Left. One of the more terrifying of Glick’s statements was:

And the Mossad now projects that it [Iran] could be within months of acquiring the bomb.

And Bush only has months left in office — Regardless of public opinion and political capital expenditure required, Bush has mostly risen to the challenge of doing what needed to be done to protect this country in the GWOT. If the do-nothing-right Republican-controlled Congress had grown a huge-hairy pair and addressed the energy situation in a realistic, and from the perspective of a war-against-Jihad mindset, we might not be in this 4-1/2 dollar and rising fuel situation. If Bush doesn’t hit the Mullah’s nuclear facilities, Israel will have to. Much more navel gazing by the West and it might be too late. The fate of Israel does hang in this particular balance.

Whatever happens — gas prices are going to keep going up. And, at $150+ per barrel of oil, almost all of the alternate forms of energy are coming into play. The big question is — “Will they make it in time?”

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