November 30, 2002

BARBARIANS AT THE GATES AND UTOPIAN GATEKEEPERS

     Thanksgiving Day 2002 gave us yet another reminder that our foes really do wish to destroy Western Civilization. Even their cowardly means of assault on unarmed innocents is a murderous thumb in the eye to civilizations' rules of war.
     As the barbarians batter at the gates of civilization, we must make sure our gatekeepers are realists, not utopians. One of the most dangerous utopian ideas floated by some of our intellectual elites, and spiced with ridicule of any who think otherwise: It would be irrational of Saddam Hussein to provide help to Islamic terrorists because he’s not an Islamic fundamentalist and doesn’t share their religious wish to impose Islamic law on the world. Therefore going after him is a diversion from our main task of going after al Qaeda. This is the same utopian denial that characterized the intellectual elites of Europe in the 1930’s. After all, Hitler couldn’t possibly mean what he was saying; it was too irrational. Before ‘appeasement’ became a pejorative word, it was the rational policy of the highly educated power elites of Great Britain. It was based on the 'reasonable' assumption that Hitler was a politician like others, one who would make demands but then compromise and accommodate. It required dismissing what he said, over and over, as mere words, meant to be part of a bargaining stance and not to be taken seriously as a statement of real goals. Let us be clear: what unites Saddam and all our other enemies is hatred of the West, hatred of Jews, and the wish to destroy America. Not only do they boldly proclaim this, but they follow words with deeds. And how do our naive utopians respond? By insisting that we debate and discuss and put our faith in the UN. The UN in turn responded the next day to the latest atrocities against Jews and Israel with the following statement: “This Day of Solidarity is a day of mourning and a day of grief,” Secretary-General Kofi Annan told a commemorative meeting in a message delivered on his behalf by Chef de Cabinet S. Iqbal Riza. Deploring the situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, he noted that the human and material losses suffered by the Palestinians over the past two years have been “nothing short of catastrophic.” The Secretary-General pointed out that Israel’s “excessive and disproportionate” use of force only serves to intensify rage, desperation and a desire for revenge..." The utopian stance requires an inversion of reality to make it all the fault of those troublesome Jews.

     Did anyone argue that Hitler and Tojo shared the same philosophy or belief system? Hitler’s Aryan quest for racial purity did not include an honored place for Asians. Tojo’s Shintoism was not embraced by Hitler. And on the allies’ side? Following the principle that the enemy of my enemy is my friend, we joined forces with Stalin. Our goal, the defeat of Germany and Japan, took precedence over our sharp ideological differences. I don’t think President Roosevelt got on the phone to counsel restraint on Stalin at Leningrad. It was clear: Hitler was our enemy. Our current State Dept. appeasers endlessly counsel Israel to be restrained when dealing with assaults by the barbarians. Their utopian fantasy is that Arab hatred of Jews can be tolerated in order to win support for America’s war on Saddam. In other words, the enemies of our friends are not really our enemies; we can explain to them how we understand their aspirations and can overlook their clearly stated goal; the annihilation of Israel and Jews. Another utopian idea, repeated endlessly: Islam is a religion of Peace. This may be true, but only if it refers to the peace of the grave. It encourages us not to notice that the fanatics we fight wish to impose a totalitarian ideology, including strict sharia law on pain of death. Furthermore, if Islam is a ‘religion of peace’, it becomes politically incorrect and evidence of bias, to point out that the Wahhabi sect of Islam, to which the House of Saud belongs, funds and supports assassins like those of 9-11 while using madrassas and mosques to propagandize in favor of killing Jews and their infidel supporters around the world. It is utopian to overlook the uniting force of Jew hatred that connects Saddam Hussein with al Qaeda, Hamas, Islamic Jihad and the countless organizations and individuals who support their assaults on civilization. And finally, it is utopian to think that the war on the Jews, whether undertaken by Hitler or by radical Islam, will stop with the Jews. The Jews are surrogates for advanced Western civilization and we are all on the target list

Posted at 10:06 AM by