The 1930s Debate Revisited Worldwide
Today's political debate very is like the 1930s debate about 'peace' with Stalin, Hitler and Bushido. That's why it's scary. Add Mao, post-war.In two cases world war really happened, but it crept up on the Anglosphere, who tried to think 'peace' because we are basically moderate Christians. We now cultivate the 'moderate Moslems', if we can.. This is no easier than countering anti-semitism and marxism.
The Germans And Russians were 'moderate Christians' too, but like most Moslems today, failed to organise to resist the hateful ideologies in their midst.
Today 20 million Moslems are within Europe, which changes the cultural and also the political equation. Their Islamists think like Hitler and Stalin, so the West must force their Moslems to take sides by increasing social pressure. Our Moslems cannot hide by being blind chauvinists. We know they have their own divisions, so they can add a vital new one.
This is not racism but realism, protecting our Western values and systems. Iran, Sudan, Pakistan, Malaysia and Indonesia are not Arab, but have the same problems.
The West suffered very costly world war and Cold War to save its civilised values -the same threat conditions exist post-communism now. Let's see how leftist China decides to take sides! So far it's not promising. They too love oil, but not the West, being chauvinist.
We either take tough smaller actions now, risking some civil rights to do so, or wait for the big explosions later.
posted by Barrie @ 6/30/2006 05:42:00 PM
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