(CNN) -- Grim, unyielding and violent reality is beginning to confront the American political establishment with facts from which it cannot hide. For 35 years, since Iranians seized the American Embassy on November 4, 1979, and kept the Americans in it as hostages, the United States has been at war with radical Islamists. They knew it. We hid from it. Year after year since then, radical Islamists have grown more militant, more sophisticated and more numerous. Now, in an arc of terror from Boko Haram in Nigeria through Hamas in Gaza to ISIS in Iraq, Syria and Lebanon, there is a clear wave of vicious religious warfare being waged against civilization by fanatics who openly promise and engage in genocidal killing.
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Newt Gingrich says ISIS, Hamas and Boko Haram want to impose Islam by force on the world
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Boko Haram threatened its captured girls with death if they didn't convert to Islam, he says
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ISIS wants the same thing for the Yazidi girls they are capturing, he says
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Gingrich: Americans are not "war weary," but even if we were, it would not matter
Iraq
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ISIS
ISIS
ISIS
Its actions give us no choice but to acknowledge that @placeholder means what it says.
Hamas
Hamas
Many people seem to be confused or deluded into believing that @placeholder does not have similarly genocidal intentions.
ISIS
ISIS
ISIS
Obviously the organization exists for the same genocidal mission as @placeholder.
Nigeria
From @placeholder to Iraq, the challenge is being organized by sincere, serious fanatics motivated by religion and willing, indeed eager, to die for their cause.
Iraq
From Nigeria to @placeholder, the challenge is being organized by sincere, serious fanatics motivated by religion and willing, indeed eager, to die for their cause.