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The White Debonair
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Why blow up buildings?
Eroding civil liberties in the west might actually be counter productive to the whole Islamist agenda. From where I sit, the last thing Al Qaeda et al. want is a western world determined to fight and defeat them. Such determination is to be found in the Bush camp, not amongst the civil libertarians. I for one don't see how the islamic radicals "win" if Bush takes away our civil liberties. In a funny sort of way, that claim is very much like Bush's own claim that they "hate our freedoms." Both assume that Islamicists want to erode our civil liberties for the sake of eroding our civil liberties.
Islamicists want the world to embrace Islam. They want the White House to become the next Hagia Sophia, if you will. In order to bring this about, it is supreme folly for them to fight us at our strong point: militarily. That is a battle they cannot win. Not directly and openly. But they can, and are, breaking us down in other ways. Five years into Iraq, and American military might is tired and much of its domestic population questions our presense there. And not without many good reasons.
But over there, five years is a blink of an eye. They can lose ten times the casualties we do, and still feel like they're just warming up while our much slimmer loses make us question our ability to acheive our objectives in Iraq. Whatever those objectives are. You see, this is their supreme advantage over use. Cultural vigor. We might have the money and we certainly have the military might. But they have the tenacity, faith in themselves and above all, the will to win. The west is like an aging man whose reached the pinacle of his life and career. He's top dog, but time ain't on his side. The Islamic world is like the young teenager just coming of age to challenge him. He's weaker, poorer and inexperienced, but he's also dogged, determined and full of youthful vitality.
Their best bet is to use our own decadent tendancies against us. Instead of hating the west for, say, its strong, independant, sexually liberated women, the fanatical muslims should welcome that as great long term development for their ultimate goal. Such women don't have children, or if they do, far fewer children than their traditionalistic, submissive Islamic counterparts do. That means the Islamic world's population grows while ours doesn't. In order to sustain our population at levels required to sustain our economy's need for growth, we must import our excess population. Where's it going to come from?
Compound this with our cultural inferiority complex that drives our cultural, educational and professional elites to cry "racism" against any suggestion that such demographic developments will spell the eventual doom of our civilization. Compound this with western cultural elite's faith in multi-cultural relativism that holds that all cultures are equal, and that we have no right to condemn the values and norms of foreign societies, including the barbarity of Sharia law. Compound this with those same elite's guilt complexes over historical racism and colonialism which more or less robs them of any belief that our own civilization has anything worth preserving or fighting for.
Simply put, the best strategy for Al-Quada to persue in the long term would be to encourage us in those areas it would seem least likely or logical for them to do in the short term. Multi culturalism and radical feminism are as far removed from Al Quada's world view as you can get, but so long as we embrace them and they do not, they cannot help but prevail over us. Women not marrying and having children imposes a population deficit on us that we must compensate for by importing our needed population. Similarily, open door immigration policies and multi-cultural ideologies allow them to come here en masse and insulate them from expectations that they conform to our norms, values and culture once they do arive. Then, its just a matter of time before they become a literal demographic majority...
And the White House becomes the next Hagia Sophia. And with none of the casualties they suffered while taking Constantinople. Just as long as they can be patient about it and not blow too much up in the mean time.
