It's the Culture, Stupid

It's not the 60's, 70's or 80's any more, it's not the Cold War, but it's still the culture war. It's still about values. The Left still spectacularly doesn't get it. Mark Steyn:

To take another example, on CNN the other night Anderson Cooper was worrying about the homicide rate in Philadelphia. The City of Brotherly Love is the murder capital of the nation, and CNN had dispatched a reporter to interview the grieving mother of a young black boy killed while riding his bicycle in the street. Apparently, a couple of cars had got backed up behind him, and an impatient passenger in one of them pulled out a gun and shot the kid. Anderson Cooper then went to commercials and, when he returned, introduced a report on how easy it is to buy guns in Philadelphia and how local politicians are reluctant to do anything about it. This is, again, an argument only the expert class could make. In the 1990s, the number of guns in America went up by 40 million, but the murder rate fell dramatically. If firearms availability were the determining factor, Vermont and Switzerland would have high murder rates. Yet in Montpelier or Geneva the solution to a boy carelessly bicycling in front of you down a city street when you're in a hurry is not to grab your gun and blow him away. It's the culture, not the technology.

Ah yes, the liberals may suggest gun-control in Gaza. Or Tehran. Or Seattle.

It's the culture war at home. And it's the war on the sharia culture, the killer culture of Islamo-fascism, stupid.

UPDATE: And bringing the counterculture to Berkeley, the good old reliable US Marines, those GREAT Americans. Via Zombie, Code Pinko imagery noted above, "San Francisco Values", as they themselves proclaim.

Marine preemptive strike in their window, a quote from John Stuart Mill:UPDATE: NY Times story on the internet jihad, some US based, aimed at converting US viewers. YouTube for jihad.