THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
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Volume VIII, Issue # 144, August 2, 2006
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
Government Committed to & Acting in Accord with Conservative Principles
Ensures a Nation's Strength, Progress, & Prosperity
WESTERN CULTURE'S FLAGGING WILL TO SURVIVE
By Christopher G. Adamo
THE FOURTH WORLD WAR: ISLAMISM VERSUS WESTERN CULTURE -- THE WEST'S STRUGGLE FOR SURVIVAL IN THE
WORLDWIDE JIHAD THAT THE ISLAMISTS ARE WAGING AGAINST WESTERN CIVILIZATION -- THE PROGRESSIVE
WEAKENING OF THE WEST'S WILL TO SURVIVE -- THE WESTERN TENDENCY TO RESORT TO APPEASEMENT OF A VERY
DANGEROUS ENEMY & THEREBY UNDERMINE THE WEST'S DEFENSES AGAINST THAT ENEMY -- ANEMIC REMNANTS OF
WESTERN CIVILIZATION DAILY EXIBITING LESS & LESS OF A DETERMINATION TO STOP, OR EVEN SLOW DOWN, THE
ISLAMIST MOVEMENT SPREADING INSIDIOUSLY THROUGHOUT THE WORLD, IN PURSUIT OF THE GOALS OF WORLD
DOMINATION & DESTRUCTION OF WESTERN CULTURE
FULL STORY:
The orchestrated international outrage over the death and mayhem at Qana, Lebanon,
leads to only two possible conclusions. The first possibility is that
Hezbollah possesses an incredibly capable global publicity machine. Yet all
aspects of that organization show it to be little more than an oversized
street gang, fervent in its devotion and animalistic in its ferocity, but
hardly able to oversee the worldwide dissemination of propaganda.
The second, and only plausible, explanation for the situation is that
innumerable other organizations are actually digesting and distributing
Hezbollah disinformation, with the rag-tag band of terrorists merely being
willing foot soldiers in this effort.
Brutal and murderous as Hezbollah may be, something much bigger and more
sinister looms behind it. Ominously, it is against this entity that Western
Civilization, even when supported by American military might, may prove to
be absolutely defenseless.
With each sunrise, Iran draws a day closer to nuclear capability. In
response, the perennially impotent United Nations has given Iran an
ultimatum to halt its nuclear program by August 31 of this year. Yet
absolutely nobody, least of all Iran’s fanatical President Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad, believes that the UN will do anything whatsoever to back up
this demand.
Thus the Iranians’ crude effort to join the nuclear club is in no way
matched by any Western resolve to prevent it from doing so. In truth, the
anemic remnants of Western Civilization are daily exhibiting less and less
of a determination to stop, or even to slow any advancement of, the Islamist
movement spreading insidiously through the world.
Instead, Westerners seek to find solace in the appearance of pockets among
the Islamic culture that do not openly advocate or accommodate violence, as
if that fact somehow dilutes or neutralizes the words and deeds of those who
do.
Such momentary comforts may appear to allow for a brief retreat into the
memories of that era before the Islamic threat metastasized into its present
state. But, in the long run, vain longings of this nature merely ensure that
the threat will continue to grow unchecked.
Meanwhile, the Islamists press forward, intending to dominate society in its
entirety. Nor have their intentions varied in the slightest during the past
fourteen hundred nears. But throughout most of that time, the Western
culture against which they strained was as intransigent as they were
devoted. Such is no longer the case.
Upon its establishment, the European Union quickly abandoned the traditions
and culture that, for centuries, had immunized its member states against
such encroachment. And as “moral relativism” and “political correctness”
continue to dominate and supplant the cultural tenets of its past, they make
its undergirding philosophy increasingly frivolous and silly.
Ultimately, it is not any moral “clarity” on the part of the Islamists that
gives them an advantage. Rather, it is the moral bankruptcy of the West that
renders its chances of prevailing against militant Islam to be ever bleaker.
With Vietnam, a generation of Americas learned the bitter lesson that an
enemy can prevent a far superior military power from prevailing, merely by
its dogged refusal to surrender. Eventually, the willingness of the North
Vietnamese to stay their course exceeded the willingness of the American
people to endure the hardships of an offensive war, and so they quit the
fight and came home.
Since then, the comfort and prosperity enjoyed by a subsequent generation of
Americans has rendered it so soft, so self absorbed, that even the load of
concern over an incurring enemy on its own soil is apparently too large of a
burden to carry. Hence, an increasing number of Americans are frustrated and
annoyed over their government’s present preoccupation with the “War on
Terror,” as if the option exists to simply walk away from this looming
threat.
So similar is this nihilistic mindset to that of the “Sixties” generation,
now entrenched in such institutions as the colleges and media, that the two
forces naturally draw together to spew their anti-American, anti-Western
diatribe amidst airs of moral superiority. In the minds of such people, 9-11
notwithstanding, America can simply opt to placate those who have sworn its
destruction, and thereafter everyone will simply get along.
It is from this manner of thinking that much of the current anti-Semitic
diatribe is being fomented, which claims that the carnage in southern
Lebanon is the result of Israeli aggression, and that the United States
ought not support Israel in its effort to neutralize Hezbollah as a threat
to its security.
Moreover, America’s abandonment of Israel might, in the minds of its
critics, serve as a goodwill offering to the murderous religionists of
Islamo-Facism. Subsequently, from such a cauldron, peace will somehow ensue.
Yet the problem goes deeper still. The very assertion by Hezbollah that the
terrorist group is following the example of North Vietnam presumes the
despicable cooperation from American and European Leftists who cling to the
subversive model they established during the height of the Cold War.
Ironically, the status quo of that era, precarious though it may have been,
served to convince the cultural elites that their nations’ leaders had
overstated the Soviet threat. But, unlike the titanic confrontations of the
Cold War, fought on such an enormous scale that the common citizen could
never comprehend their scope, the war against militant Islam has already
reached the streets of Europe and America.
Devoid of the moral certitude necessary to confront this enemy as the true
evil it is, they similarly expect that platitudes and indifference will
immunize them against the malevolent intentions of the Islamists. But just
as surely as Hezbollah’s Katyusha rockets keep raining down upon northern
Israel, if the buildup of militant Islam is not immediately brought to a
halt, the nations of the west can surely expect much worse on their own
soil.
LINKS TO RELATED TOPICS:
Islamism & Jihadism -- The Threat of Radical Islam
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Page One
Middle East -- Arabs, Arab States,
& Their Middle Eastern Neighbors
The Middle East -- Lebanon as a Geopolitical Problem
The Israeli-Arab Conflict
Jews & Anti-Semitism
Europe, Europeans, & Anti-Semitism
The Middle East & the Problem of Iran
War & Peace in the Real World
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Islamist Terrorist Attacks on the U.S.A.
Osama bin Laden & the Islamist Declaration of War
Against the U.S.A. & Western Civilization
Islamist International Terrorism &
U.S. Intelligence Agencies
Counterterrorism & U.S. National Security
U.S. National Security Strategy
Christopher G. Adamo is a freelance writer who lives in southeastern Wyoming and works in the field of industrial instrumentation.
He is actively involved in Wyoming's political process, serving as a delegate to successive Wyoming State Republican Conventions
and as a member of the Wyoming State Republican Central Committee. He has assisted Republican candidates for local and state
legislatures and for the United States Congress. His articles, which appear regularly in The Progressive Conservative, U.S.A.,
and on a number of other websites, reflect a major concern with the damage being done to Conservatism and Conservative causes by
the Liberal Leftist faction in the Republican Party as well as by the much larger and more powerful Liberal Leftist faction in the
Democratic Party. During the early and middle 1990s, Adamo was Editor of the Wyoming Christian Coalition's official news organ,
The Wyoming Christian.
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