It's a brave new world

From The Washington Post:

President Bush came under new pressure yesterday at home and abroad to alter his policies in the Middle East. British Prime Minister Tony Blair pushed for a broader Arab-Israeli peace initiative to help stabilize Iraq, while the incoming chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee pledged to take a hard line on seeking early troop withdrawals.

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In London, meanwhile, Blair suggested a desire for a more aggressive Western initiative to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as a key to tamping down violence in the region, a recommendation that is also reportedly under consideration by the Iraq Study Group. Blair said that resolving the Arab-Israeli dispute, stabilizing Lebanon and pressuring Iran to halt its support of militants are key to helping reduce bloodshed in Iraq.

Blair is not a complete fool. He knows that from the Arab standpoint the only resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is the destruction of Israel.

This highlights one of the central problems which the United States is going to face as we proceed into the 21st Century.

In the past century the great threats were the Axis powers who attempted to rule the world through direct conquest and the USSR which tried to control the world indirectly through subversion and intimidation. Today the Islamofascists are the Nazis and the People's Republic of China is the new Soviet Union. To beat the old threat we needed allies and to defeat the new threat we will need alliances as well.

However we are living in a world in which our former allies are becoming increasingly hostile to us. The foundational idea of multiculturalism is the proposition that all cultures are completely equal; that none is superior in any way to any other. In theory this means that Western culture and Christian tradition is just as valuable as the Eastern culture and Islamic tradition.

However in the real world all cultures are not equally valid. Picture the New Ager laying on the ground contemplating a cockroach and meditating on how he and the roach are really of equal worth. The cockroach is not being elevated. The human is being lowered.

When you contemplate the advances of Western culture and compare them to the stagnation of the Islamic cultures of the Middle East you are not declaring the Islamic to be equally valuable, you are stating that the Western is equally valueless. And that which has no value does not deserve to be defended.

Then anyone willing to defend themselves is viewed as at best a troublemaker and at worst a walking rebuke to your weakness. This is why half of Europe secretly breathed a sigh of relief when Theo van Gogh was gunned down (the other half of Europe openly breathed a sigh of relief).

The European Union is being colonized by the Islamic world and it is only a matter of time (2030 -2050, depending on how many Europeans get out or give up) before Europe is transformed into Eurabia. But long before the point in which a majority of Muslims and willing dhimminies actually gain power and vote to transform the European Union into the European Caliphate the still nominally European governments will read the handwriting on the wall and align themselves economically (already happening), Culturally (beginning to happen) and militarily (you can see the seeds of it being planted right now) with the Islamic world.

This will mean that the US will find itself isolated from its traditional friends. My best advice is to work on our relationship with Ireland and Eastern Europe as well as Japan.