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without the Brotherhood. The MB birthed AQ and although the two organizations have clear tactical differences today, they both share the exact same ideology and goals.
    The teachings of Brotherhood ideologues like Hassan al-Banna and Sayyid Qutb inspired the entire modern Islamic terrorist enterprise—including al-Qaeda, Hamas, and, in many ways, the Shia revolutionaries in Iran. Those teachings perfectly supplement Islam’s core texts, the Koran and Sunnah, which are littered throughout with calls for conquest and violence against non-Muslims. Combine the two—revolutionary ideology and extreme theology—and you have a lethal mix. Essentially, the Muslim Brotherhood is a totalitarian political movement with theological underpinnings. Nazis sought a thousand-year Reich founded on racial superiority; the Soviets wanted a global communist system; the Muslim Brotherhood and its offshoots like al-Qaeda, as well as the Shia jihadist axis of Iran and Hezbollah, all seek a global caliphate governed by sharia law. It’s a seamless transition, from one great American enemy to the next.
    The rise of the Muslim Brotherhood and the global Sunni Islamist movement does indeed represent the rise of America’s next great enemy. China might be a great enemy in the future, and a declining (but still militarily formidable) Russia might be our enemy of the past, but the revolutionary Islamism epitomized by the Muslim Brotherhood is rapidly emerging as our great enemy of today. Yes, Iran is, as I write this, on the verge of acquiring nuclear weapons that would change the world landscape in horrific ways and pose an existential threat to the United States. But I believe, based on years of conversations with Israeli officials, that Israel will never allow Iran to acquire a nuclear weapon and will instead, at some point, conduct a preemptive strike against Iran’s nuclear weapons facilities. If that happens, the Iranian regime will go from aspiring to lead the Islamic world to being a vengeful, weakened terrorist sponsor. And despite current differences (seen most clearly in the Syrian civil war, where Iran and Hezbollah are battling the Brotherhood and al-Qaeda as I write), I see Shia Iran eventually working closely with the Brotherhood-led Sunni Islamist movement toward the common goals of destroying Israel and taking on the West. The only question is whether Tehran will accept being a subsidiary or still angle to be top dog.
    The wild card in this conversation, of course, is North Korea. Little is known about Kim Jong-un other than his fondness for Dennis Rodman and garish haircuts. He seems the type who tortured kittens and immersed himself in violent video games and films while growing up a spoiled child in his equally depraved father’s palace in Pyongyang. Now this chubby sociopath is in control of a growing nuclear arsenal and his regime is vowing to blow U.S. cities off the map. In order to one day accomplish that feat, North Korea, like Iran, is actively working on intercontinental ballistic missiles that can reach the United States.
    Also like Iran, Kim’s regime has worked on electromagnetic pulse (or EMP) technology that could destroy America’s electrical grid and send us back into the nineteenth century. All it would take is one nuclear missile, mounted on a Scud and fired from the deck of, say, an unmarked freighter a few hundred miles off of America’s coast. Once that missile is detonated in the atmosphere above the United States, frying everything below, life as we know it ends, and the country collapses into chaos. Then we’re talking about America’s last great enemy.
    The flip side is that the North Korean regime is eminently beatable and isolated and—minus its acquiring intercontinental ballistic missiles or EMP capabilities—can be erased overnight by the United States if a military engagement were to break out (and if the Obama administration were willing to use the appropriate force—a big if). At the end of