Back in April, author Dan Simmons (Hyperion series, Ilium, Hardcase and others) wrote a cautionary tale about - as his character termed it - the Century War, the Long war With Islam.

If you're reading this little blog, then most likely you have read essayists like Steven Den Beste and Bill Whittle, or at least the news and opinion sites like Instapundit and Little Green Footballs, or if not that, then some history, so if (like me) you had followed the links and read that story (it was framed as fiction, sort of; truth framed as fiction framed as truth) you would have nodded your head and skipped forward a little and said, Yes, yes. I know that, but it's always good to see another one who sees the dangers.

What Simmons didn't see, it appears, is the wilful blindness and vitriol of those who do not wish to see the world as it is. His response to the (predictable) outpouring of bile is a much longer and more tightly reasoned* essay. Read it. Admittedly, the people who do read it will largely not be those who most need to read it, but read it anyway.

* Not that the original story wasn't tightly reasoned, it's just that the reasoning was opaque to many readers. This essay brings the facts and reasoning to the front.

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