Only Better and Best Wishes for the New Year.

Submitted by Jay (United States), Dec 26, 2006 at 23:02

Dr.Pipes correctly warns of pacifism,self hatred, and complacency by the west towards the march of radical Islam. While I agree with Dr.Pipes, I must respectfully add a fourth which is now the most difficult of the four. The term I will use is unity, but not just unity in action or reaction. What I'm referring to is unity in the assessed danger.

If the Talibans will be percieved as only an Afghanistan problem,and the Iranians as only an Israeli problem,and domestic radical Islam as only a British problem when it harms England, or only a French problem when it hurts France, then guess what? We will never get to the action or the reaction by the west because collectivly no one in the group saw it as their problem.

Democracy is the greatest political working in the world, but it errs at times, in the local way of thinking, as it applies to international threats. I can't say that I have an answer here. A new Nato United Nations with a few new members might work. Kinda like the Arab league, only better.

Best Wishes to Dr. Pipes for a while.

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