Jihad Watch director Robert Spencer’s latest article, “Surrendering to the Global Jihad,” is up today at FrontPage.
The Philippines has all of 51 soldiers in Iraq, but not for long. The Philippine government has caved in to demands from the jihadist kidnappers of Angelo de la Cruz, a Filipino truck driver in Iraq, and the troops are going home. De la Cruz is safe now, having avoided the fate that has befallen other recent hostages, and everyone is happy.
Of course, the withdrawal of fifty-one troops is of little moment in terms of the overall Iraqi military presence. But for the global jihad, this is almost as huge a victory as the Spanish capitulation after the March 11 Madrid bombings: it shows once again that the terrorists can have their way with the gelded republics of the non-Muslim world.