Western Resistance

There was a man named Oswald Spengler who wrote a book called Untergang des Abendlandes or Decline of the West. It may have been part of the depressive nature of Nietzsche's philosophical output; but anyway the German Kaiser had been flooding his cousin the Tsar of All The Russias with missive after missive about The Yellow Peril so the ground was fertile

"The pessimists believe that the cosmos is a clock that is running down; the progressives believe it is a clock that they themselves are winding up. But I happen to believe that the world is what we choose to make it, and that we are what we choose to make ourselves; and that our renascence or our ruin will alike, ultimately and equally, testify with a trumpet to our liberty."

G K Chesterton

Now let us look at a period when Europe was completely under the sway of one dominant ideology - say 1940...........with Russia allied to the German Reich; Japan rampant in Asia.............and Great Britain as a lonely outpost supported by its imperial allies in Australia, India, Canada, New Zealand in almost a repetition of those major conflicts of 1756-63, and 1793-1815 when Britain was alone against a hostile Europe.

Whenever such notions hit Americans they become hysterically alarmed. Terrorism caused much less concern before 9/11 yet most of the world had been fighting it since the late-1960s.

There is more a danger that Europe caught as it is between an unstable Gangster State called Russia which is largely a product of Clinton's interference; and the threat of an imploding Middle East flooding Europe with refugees; could lurch into a really authoritarian system more like Russia.

The chances of Muslims dominating Europe are low; the chances of Europe becoming more like Russia are high.

Senor Diaz! I hope you're not referring to me with that comment that someone here thinks you worship Mark Steyn?

Tsk, tsk....

Thanks for this, Ruy. I admire Steyn a great deal, but after reading his book one could become resigned to "letting it happen" -- since "demography is destiny" and there is no was to stop that particular steamroller. That sort of aggravated and poetically expressed hopelessness is popular on "our side" -- witness Baron at Gates of Vienna, for example -- and sort of counterproductive. If you can't offer a solution, or arent willing to brainstorm for one, then don't bring up the problem. Too many are willing to kvetch that all is lost and de facto throw in the towel when all we've had so far are a few skirmishes.

Thanks for this, Ruy. I admire Steyn a great deal, but after reading his book one could become resigned to "letting it happen" -- since "demography is destiny" and there is no was to stop that particular steamroller. That sort of aggravated and poetically expressed hopelessness is popular on "our side" -- witness Baron at Gates of Vienna, for example -- and sort of counterproductive. If you can't offer a solution, or arent willing to brainstorm for one, then don't bring up the problem. Too many are willing to kvetch that all is lost and de facto throw in the towel when all we've had so far are a few skirmishes.

I have not read Steyn's book, but I am familiar with his argument by reading his columns. Steyn's existence is one of the reasons I have not lost hope.

But the West needs to realize that the war we are fighting is mostly ideological. The worship of mohammed inspired by islam is nothing if not absurd and risible, as well as psychotic and violent.

The War on Jihad must be conducted on every front, from the scholarly to the satirical and by every other means, primitive or sophisticated.

The War needs to be aimed at the West as well as the the world of islam.

A film about the life of mohammed, for instance, a completely factual one, would be devastating to the cause of jihad. The oppression of women should be a relentless theme. The monster called sharia provides endless resources.

We are not at war with "islamism" or "islamo-fascism". Those are terms dreamed up by Western writers who fear speaking the actual truth: we are at war with jihad and islam.

Mockery and scholarly analysis of both should be our daily bread, and the daily, hourly meal served the entire globe.

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