Posted on 04/09/2007 8:53:49 PM PDT by TheConservativeCitizen
I try to be neither unduly pessimistic nor optimistic — just honest. My honest opinion is that the rich West has already passed the point of being able to wage sustained battle with our enemies.
Such efforts require sacrifice and a fairly universal committment by the citizens within. We show no capacity for either.
In response to the series of retreats by America against terrorism from 1979 to 2001, Osama bin Laden famously expounded that America was a paper tiger who would fold when struck. Immediately following 9/11, the nation and its leaders were aware of this fact — even quoted it often — and sought to disabuse Muslim terrorrists of that belief. Now, just five years later, we have done more to confirm bin Laden’s analysis than dispel it.
If confronted with a serious threat for survival, the West would have to summon a cultural-superior mindset, intent on destroying our enemies based on the sincere belief that our civilization is worth preserving over their’s. It is crystal clear that there are millions of westerners on the Left who wouldn’t even entertain the idea, and a large swath who would actively root for, if not aid, our enemies under any variety of college-campus and liberal website rationalizations.
Additionally, there are millions more who live in a post-ideological comfort zone. They would seek to reach an accomodation with the Islamists, whereby the marching mullahs would be given carte blanche, provided they agreed to let this generation of pampered people live out their lives in prosperity.
Iran knows this. That is why they openly plot the killing of US and British soldiers, sponsor a wide array of murder-groups, dismiss the pathetic UN, sprint straight toward a nuclear arsenal, and now, kidnapp and propogandize British soldiers, and have their agent ramp up the attack on the West in Iraq.
Al Qaeda and others know this too, and it is for this reason that we can no longer hope to win a serious confrontation with Islam.
Andre should be thrilled these days. It is now clear that the conservative tilt of the 1980’s and the rightward blip after 9/11 were little more than the occasional downward slip on the line graph of a rapidly rising stock. The universities, the media, Hollywood… they are all as committed to the bizarre suicide ritual of multiculturalism and anti-western venom, as they ever were in the 1970’s. And today, unlike then, even the Democratic Party can be counted on to suckerpunch the efforts by westerners to defend themselves, while giving effusive support to the most radical opponents of civilizational survival. Yes sir, these are great times for the postmodern, domestic enemies of western liberalism.
For the long, proud, 2,000 year history of our civilization, not so much.
Andre?
It’s a group blog, Andre is another member he is referring to.
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