When US forces killed Osama bin Laden on May 2, 2011, Hillary Clinton hailed the event as coinciding with the end of the jihadist era -- sorry, "extremist narrative" era (she was still parroting Obama-approved lingo) -- in the Middle East and North Africa, just where we see it resurgent today.

Hillary Clinton, May 2, 2011:

History will record that bin Ladin's death came at a time of great movements toward freedom and democracy, at a time when the people across the Middle East and North Africa are rejecting the extremist narratives and charting a path of peaceful progress based on universal rights and aspirations. There is no better rebuke to al-Qaida and its heinous ideology.

Clinton's statement crystallizes the Western delusion, which is also the Western desire. In May 2011, Clinton's "freedom and democracy" -- a.k.a., the even more euphemistic and inaptly metaphoric "Arab Spring" -- were indeed moving across the Middle East and North Africa, but they were powered by the "extremist narratives" Clinton told us these Islamic lands were "rejecting." This phenomenon is something Clinton, Obama, Sarkosy (Bernard Henri Levy), Cameron will never, can never admit. Their claim to authority and respect, their reputations, their careers, their future exercise of power are all threatened -- doomed -- by any reckoning, any admission of the purely Islamic will to sharia, to conquest, to a caliphate, which the postmodern, 21st-century world is witnessing, and which these leaders have done so much to enable (George W. Bush et pere, also).

Therefore, denial at this pinnacle of leadership will continue -- denial of contradiction in sharia vs. freedom, denial of the Islamic definition of freedom or "hurriyya" ( perfect enslavement to Allah), denial of the wide appeal of the Muslim Brotherhood and other pro-sharia  forces throughout the umma (transnational Islam). Denial of the neat alignment of the programs of Islamic terrorists (sharia), Islamic politicians (sharia) and Islamic "clerics" (sharia). Denial of the implications in the refusal, the inability of the leading lights of the Islamic world to "ex-communicate" even Osama bin Laden. Denial of the fact, historical and contemporary, that liberty disappears where Islam blooms.

Hillary's, Condi's, & W's, Tony Blair's the neoconservatives', the COINdinistas' "universal rights and aspirations" are a mirage, a dream. But these official dreamers continue to command armies and treasuries. (I don't include Obama in their company because I don't know whether Obama believes in their dreams with the same degree of gullibility/mendacity.) We can't seem to rid ourselves of them, failing as a society to confront the basic fallacy: How can the rights and aspirations of a collectivist system (Islam) and an individual-rights-based system (the West) possibly be considered "universal"? They are different.

The way they become "universal" is not through the "export of liberty" into Islam -- a non-starter, as demonstrated in nation-building fiascos in Iraq and Afghanistan -- but through the transformation of the West itself. This process is well advanced, not only through demographic and cultural Islamization but, more systemically, through the entrenchment of Marxism-socialism-FDRism-Obama-ism. Barring a Western revival, we will become a collectivist, liberty-free, adjunct of the umma. 

All of which makes Hillary's sudden talk of the "spreading jihadist threat" a fake, a cover, a Clintonian pivot to give a "bad name" to the violence and unrest which her Islam-blind policies have helped arm and drive, without ever admitting the policies are lacking, let along in need of change. And certainly without ever admitting that both she and they are wrong. 

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