OMG, I fear Steyn's on to something here...
The healthiest humans have an active immune system, that won't hesitate to kill rogue cells, while doing a pretty good job of leaving healthy cells alone.
It can err on either side, killing you with an autoimmune disease, or letting you be killed by infection. For this to work, the immune system must have both strong weapons and a well developed sense of what cells are good and what ones are bad. And just because a cell was good yesterday, doesn't give it a free ticket today (yes, John McCain - that means you, and many others.)
Tyranny, fascism, and such are like an overly aggressive immune system, killing off healthy cells. Anarchy is like a too weak immune system, letting sick cells proliferate.
For governments to work best, they must enforce some rules, and weed out the bad guys from the good. The more rabid libertarians who would denounce any government authority to spy on, imprison, and kill people, both its citizens and foreigners, are asking us to descend into anarchy, and be killed by the evil infections abundant in the world.
Our police, intelligence and military need to be strong, and need to be smart - doing their best to apply overwhelming force to the bad guys, while letting the good guys go freely about their business. It won't be perfect, but going to either extreme of tyranny or anarchy is far worse, as human history and current events have shown again and again and again.
Every time we let Political Correctness or Leftist politics impose some constraint on what our armed forces, spies or cops can do, we limit the power and flexibility of our cultural immune system. Occasionally, that's a good idea, if a particular power is more often misused than not. Usually, it's a bad idea.
We must not only tolerate some intolerance; our culture's life depends on it.
" 'In other words, just as the AIDS pandemic greatly facilitated societal surrender to the gay agenda, so 9/11 is greatly facilitating our surrender to the most extreme aspects of the multicultural agenda.'
OMG, I fear Steyn's on to something here..."
If by that you mean that last sentence, I fear you are right. I hadn't noticed that AIDS had the bizarre effect of baking and sealing unsafe homosexual behaviours into our culture, instead of forcing the "gay lifestyle" back underground, as you would expect. Just another sign something is really wrong.