Victim in Manchester: eight-year-old Saffie Roussos
Being a Tea Party person, I subscribe
to the three core values:
Fiscal responsibility
Limited
government
Free markets
Those values are under attack by
ISIS and jihadists who have declared war on all infidels, such as us. The
Manchester suicide bombing is only the latest in the continuing jihad against
Western Civilization.
And to hear the official government
responses, the UK (and Germany and France and Sweden and . . . ) are still
playing defense. That guarantees one result: more terror attacks. As usual, Mark
Steyn nails it in his “Dangerous Woman Meets Danger Man” column:
Angela Merkel pronounced the attack
"incomprehensible". But she can't be that uncomprehending, can she?
Our declared enemies are perfectly straightforward in their stated goals, and
their actions are consistent with their words. They select their targets with
some care. . . .
the arithmetic is not difficult: Poland and Hungary and
Slovakia do not have Islamic terrorism because they have very little Islam.
France and Germany and Belgium admit more and more Islam, and thus more and
more terrorism.
. . .
Few of us have gotten
things as disastrously wrong as May and Merkel and Hollande and an entire
generation of European political leaders who insist that remorseless
incremental Islamization is both unstoppable and manageable. It is neither -
and, for the sake of the dead of last night's carnage and for those of the next
one, it is necessary to face that honestly.
Theresa May's statement in
Downing Street is said by my old friends at The
Spectator to be "defiant", but what
she is defying is not terrorism but reality. So too for all the exhausted
accessories of defiance chic: candles, teddy bears, hashtags, the pitiful
passive rote gestures that acknowledge atrocity without addressing it - like
the Eloi in H G Wells' Time
Machine, too evolved to resist the Morlocks.
. . .
If Mrs May or Frau Merkel
has a happier ending, I'd be interested to hear it. If not, it is necessary not
to carry on, but to change, and soon - before it's too late.
The rest of his column is here.
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