7) The seventh reason lies in the moral poverty of the West’s, and especially America’s, own value system. Doctrines of market freedom, free choice and competition — or “freedom ’n’ liberty” — are no match for the ethics of Islam and Sharia, like them or not. This writer does not know America.
Our values are not ONLY market values; they are the values of our Judeo-Christian beliefs, as much a contribution to American exceptionalism as they were in Toqueville's day.
That is what will give us the belief and fortitude to defeat Islam.
This Selbourne fellow writing is a Brit. The situation over there is really quite bad. "Theodore Dalrymple" writes good stuff on it. If you haven't read him you are in for a treat.
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There are a lot of very poor Americans around these days. I still meet many of the old breed. The "old breed" is of the heart and the mind not in where you were born or who your father and mother were. You sound like one of the old breed yourself.
Yes, we will win. I simply prefer small timely wars to huge brutal kill fests. Unless we are darned lucky we are headed for the second sort of war.