On 9/11, liberals wrung their hands and wondered, “Why?”

On 7/7 we know why:

We need to keep in view the recovery of the Iraqi economy since liberation. The Iraqi Ministry of Finance estimates that the economy is growing at 17 per cent this year. Unemployment has dropped by as much as 50 per cent, with per capita income rising from less than $US700 at the liberation to a projected $US1200 in 2007. Iraq’s schools are educating 4.3 million children. Teacher pay has been raised by up to 2500 per cent over pre-war levels.

An independent media has been born: there are 23 commercial television stations, 80 radio stations, 170 newspapers and magazines. Iraq’s environment is returning to life, as US engineers blow up the dikes that drained and poisoned the marshes of southern Iraq and allow the Marsh Arabs to return to their ancient homes. More fatefully for the terrorists, their tactics, horrendous as they may be in the short run are over the longer term turning Arab and Muslim opinion against the extremist versions of Islam that sanction such tactics.

The Iraq / War on Islamofascism connection has been clearly stated time and again by President Bush and denounced by Democrats. Yet the fact that Islamic extremists are expanding their targets in the region to anyone who is remotely connected furthering the president’s vision is proof positive that W has been right all along.

There are many more signs that the War on Islamofascism is being won in Iraq:

• Al-Zarqawi said the Iraqi army is as great an enemy as the Americans.
• An al Qaeda-connected group claimed responsibility for kidnapping Ihab el-Sherif, Egypt’s envoy to Iraq who was to become the first Arab ambassador to fledling nation. Today they murdered him.
• On Wednesday, gunmen tried to assassinate the envoys of Bahrain and Pakistan, two nations that Muslim extremists are targeting because those nations have recognized the Iraqi government.
• According to Al Jazeera, Jordanian authorities arrested the spiritual mentor of Iraq’s al Qaeda leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
• A gun battle between Syrian authorities and armed militants said to include ex-Saddam guards resulted in one dead terrorist and two arrested. (Did you catch that? Syria!)
• Syria (again) killed one terrorist and arrested 34 others that were trying toillegally cross the border into neighboring Lebanon
• Egypt and Israel are preparing to sign a landmark deal for Egypt to supply natural gas to the Jewish state.
• Jordan’s King Abdullah blasted Muslim extremists for having “defamed Islam and Muslims” and called on Muslims to reject extremism, embrace moderation and tolerate other religions.
• Saudi Arabia’s security forces killed Moroccan national Younis Mohammad Ibrahim al-Hayyari, the Saudi’s most-wanted al Qaeda leader in the country.
• The fighting between Iraqi insurgents and foreign terrorists in Husaybah, which first began in May, is still going on.

Condemnation of the 7/7 attack is far more widespread than was done on 9/11. In Britain:

Sir Iqbal Sacranie of the Muslim Council of Britain said he utterly condemned the attacks.

“We are simply appalled and want to express our deepest condolences to the families.

“These terrorists, these evil peoplewant to demoralise us as a nation and divide us.

“All of must unite in helping the police to hunt these murderers down.”

Meanwhile, the United Nations has yet to even define what terrorism is, much less devise a method for combating it.