Down a drain, slowly
Steyn, on our ever-more-grim reality:
When (the pan-Islamists) hold hands and sing “We Are The World,” they mean it. And we’re being very complacent if we think they only take over the husks of “failed states” like Afghanistan, Somalia and Lebanon. The Islamists are very good at using the principal features of the modern multicultural democracy — legalisms, victimology — to their own advantage. The United Kingdom is, relatively speaking, a non-failed state, but at a certain level Her Majesty’s government shares the same problem as their opposite numbers in Beirut: They don’t quite dare to move against the pan-Islamists and they have no idea what possible strategy would enable them to do so.
So instead they tackle the symptoms. Excellent investigative work by MI-5 and Scotland Yard foiled this plot, and may foil the next one, and the one after that, and the 10 after that, and the 100 after those. And in the meantime, a thousand incremental inconveniences fall upon the citizen. If you had told an Englishman on Sept. 10, 2001, that within five years all hand luggage would be banned on flights from Britain, he’d have thought you were a kook. If you’d told an Englishwoman that all liquids would be banned except milk for newborn babies that could only be taken on board if the adult accompanying the child drinks from the bottle in front of a security guard, she’d have scoffed and said no one would ever put up with such a ludicrous imposition. But now it’s here. What other changes will the Islamists have wrought in another five years?
Absent a determination to throttle the ideology, we’re about to witness the unraveling of the world.
Because of our lack of bold leadership, our refusal to learn from history, and our unwillingness to lean hard enough on our own liberal Fifth Columnists to force them to at least stand aside and allow us to unshackle ourselves from an outdated and foolish political correctness that prevents us from squarely facing who and what it is we’re fighting, we are losing this war. And that’s an “inconvenient truth” that you’ll never, ever hear the likes of simpleminded, self-serving fools like Al Gore proclaiming.
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Those whose demands are not negotiable cannot be met with negotiation.
Those who practice babrbarism cqannot be met with civility.
Those who announce that they intend to rule the world must be met with maximum force.
What is there to negotiate? How long must we do this dance before giving the enemy what he desires - a conflict to decide all?
I fear we must wait until it is the only answer, blazing in the face like the headlight of a freight train.