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A “global struggle” against Islamism—to be waged everywhere except where it matters most
Neocons are deeply discouraged about the voters’ failure to back Bush’s war against Islamism. The trouble is, this war they’re mourning is a phony war. Thus on election day Powerline approvingly quoted David Rivkin:
Likewise the streets of Baghdad, the dusty roads of the Sunni Triangle, the back alleys of Kabul, and the mountains of Pashawar are all theatres in the global struggle against the Islamists. The surest way to hand them victory is to lose sight of this reality.Very interesting. I would like, by way of a thought experiment, to offer my own paraphrase of Rivkin:
Likewise the neighborhoods of Dearborn, Michigan, the burning banlieus of Paris, the threatenening streets of Bradford, England, the thousands of mosques being built throughout the Western world, the increasing demands for sharia law by Muslims in the West, and the Western consulates and airports through which the Muslims continue to enter the West en masse are all theatres in the global struggle against the Islamists. The surest way to hand them victory is to lose sight of this reality.Now, does anyone think that Powerline would quote my passage with the same approval with which it quoted Rivkin’s? No? Then Powerline is not very serious about this global struggle against Islamism, it it? In fact, given that the proponents of this global struggle against Islamism continue to acquiece in the mass immigration that is swelling the numbers and power of Muslims in the West, their global struggle against Islamism is something of a fraud, isn’t it? Yet it is the defeat of this fraud by the American electorate that the “global struggle” advocates are now mourning. Even in their wildest dreams, it doesn’t occur to these neocon “global strugglists” that if they offered the American people a real war to defend the West against Islam, instead of the fraudulent war they’ve been promoting for the last four years, the American people might support it. The thought of waging such a genuine war doesn’t remotely occur to the neocons, because it would require that they cease being neocons. I sent the above blog entry to Powerline with the following note:
It would be really interesting if at your blog you would respond to the argument presented herein instead of ignoring it. The question I’ve posed to you is very simple. How can you promote what you call a global struggle against Islamism, while acting as though the main Islamic threat to the West is in the Muslim countries, rather than in the growth of Islam in the West, a phenomenon that has been made possible by one factor and one factor only: the immigration of Muslims into the West? If you are unwilling to call at the least for the cessation of further Muslim immigration, how can anyone take seriously your claim that you support a global struggle to defend the West from Islamism? Needless to say, Powerline has not replied to these arguments. Not only are neocons incapable of defending their positions from an intelligent challenge coming from their right, they are not even capable of acknowledging its existence. It falls outside their ken, because it lies outside their premises.
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