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The Shire strategy
Underneath his neo-medievalism, Tolkien preached realism. He wrote, It will not do to leave a live dragon out of your plans if you live near one. That is, the dragon, red in tooth and crescent, is lurking. It cannot be ignored. Nor can we ignore the painful reality of a genuine fifth column in the West. This summer, Gordon Browns government concluded that 1 in 11 British Muslimsalmost 150,000 people living in the United Kingdomproactively supports terrorism, with still more rated as passive supporters. And this spring, a Pew Center survey found that 13 percent of American Muslims, as well as 26 percent aged 18-29, were bold enough to tell a pollster that suicide bombing was sometimes justified. These Muslim infiltrators, of course, have potential access to weapons of mass destruction. So what to do? Call the ACLU? The United Nations? That wont work. Just as the Roman Empires dream of universal dominion once collapsed, leaving the peoples of Europe to create new institutions for their own survival, so, today, any thought that the United Nations could save us from ruin has evaporated. The Blue Helmets have fallen, and they cant get up. At the same time, at a level just below the UN, the vision of an ever-expanding European Union, to include all the states touching the Mediterranean, has happily collapsed. Now it seems certain that even Turkey will never be admitted. Increasingly, people see that in a world of transnational terrorism, the key issue is not figuring out a common agricultural policy that unites Denmark and Cyprus, but rather a common survival policy for Europa, from the Pillars of Hercules to the Ural Mountains. So we must look to older models for hope and survivalmodels more faithful, more fighting, more fertile.... Posted by: lotp 2007-09-15 |
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