Sharia

Thomas Sowell of National Review provides this nonsensical warning:

Perhaps people who are busy gushing over the Obama cult today might do well to stop and think about what it would mean for their granddaughters to live under sharia law.

Such statements might fire up the base, but don't conservatives realize that it makes virtually everyone else question both their fitness to govern and their sanity?

No, it's not the 'Obama is a secret Muslim' threat  to America Sowell is talking about, his idea is that Obama will lead to us to being conquered by Muslims.

The major problem with Sowell’s post is to claim the risk would be greater under Obama. The risk of terrorists getting nuclear weapons has only limited relationship to whoever is president and I wouldn’t use this as an issue to attack either party. If we were to drag partisan politics into this, the Democrats have a far better track record in understanding the issue than the Republicans, making his post especially absurd. It’s not a question of being hawkish. It is a matter of understanding the problem and responding in a rational manner. Actually in some ways the Democrats were more hawkish. It was the Democrats before 9/11 who were more hawkish in terms of taking action against terrorism while the Republicans opposed this. Republicans win the overall battle for being more hawkish under Bush. The problem is that they were hawkish in ways which were counterproductive.

(via Yglesias)