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Marvin Kalb, just now on Fox News Channel, said "you'd have to be a fool" to not recognize that we're in a "clash of civilizations" with radical Islam.

The lights begin to go on. With luck enough lights will go on before the burkas and the sharia hit squads start coming out in Hollywood, Berkeley, New York, and other hot spots of cultural sensitivity.

Related:  The New Normal by Dean Barnett, guest-blogging at Hugh Hewett:

Just as is the case with an illness, there are a lot of people willing to tell us that are fears are overblown. If you want to believe that George W. Bush and the Patriot Act are the greatest threats to our way of life, you won’t have much trouble finding a professor on a nearby college campus to buttress your theory. If you want to think that there was nothing really going on in London to warrant any concern and all the news this morning is just Karl Rove’s response to Joe Lieberman’s defeat, you’ll easily locate a prominent blogger to offer his concurrence. (HT: Allah)

But it’s past time we face the facts and realize that this our New Normal. It’s worse than the old normal, the one that we had before 9/11 when we felt completely safe even though we weren’t.

It’s time we stop having a sphere of things that are “unimaginable.” Let’s imagine airliners exploding over our cities. Let’s imagine a mushroom cloud over Tel Aviv. Let’s imagine a mushroom cloud over New York.

Let’s imagine how such things might happen. And the let’s resolve to stop them.