The Guantanamo distraction


The E.U. needs to direct attention from it's failures
Victor Davis Hanson doesn't pull any punches on this one.

The pacifism of the European Union was supposed to be a post-Cold War model of liberal reason for the rest of the world. Instead, Islamic fascists have either ignored Europe's human-rights advocacy or considered it a sign of weakness to be exploited. An impotent E.U. is embarrassed and needs cheap targets like Guantanamo to transfer attention away from its past naivete about the dangers of Islamic fascism.

By ankle-biting America on Guantanamo, the Europeans sound moral and tough while ignoring the real dangers for which they have absolutely no solutions - unassimilated and angry Muslims, the Dutch and Danes under assault by radical Islamic censors and a defenseless Europe potentially soon in range of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's nuclear-tipped missiles.

Note also that the U.S. has been mostly quiet about Europe's own ethical lapses in this war. Americans are in a quandary with Iran in large part because the Europeans - for whom profits trump idealism - sold the theocracy technology needed for the bomb. Nothing new there: Saddam once got his nuclear reactor from the French and his bombproof bunkers from the Germans.

The only reason I support the war on terror is because the alternatives are worse.

We are dealing with people who respect power first and foremost, they are not going to pay any attention to the social niceties unless they are defeated. Yes, I agree it is a terrible thing to say, and American foreign policy helped it happen.

It's the Augean Stables all over again. No matter what we do, we're going to make a mess. Until we deal decisively with the Islamists (as opposed to Muslims), we can't afford to let our guard down.

— NeoWayland

Posted: Thu - June 29, 2006 at 04:26 AM  Tag


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