The Big Issues

Let’s put party aside. Forget faction. And clear our minds of cant. Now is the time for independent thinkers to take an objective look at the big issues and judge them on their merits—Global Warming, Iraq, Israel. Saving planet earth and western civilization is here our sole concern.

Global warming

Face it. Things are hotting up. Bill Ruddiman’s Plows, Plagues, and Petroleum (Princeton, 2005) convinced me that humanity has been influencing the atmosphere for some 8,000 years, and Al Gore’s invaluable film strikingly confirms this fact. See it. Sign up. Do something. I’m sure there’s room for argument on specifics, but I’m equally sure it’s 90% correct. I should add that Gore comes across with grace and distinction. He represents everything that is best in America. If there were another thousand politicians like him the planet’s prospects would be greatly improved.

The Iraq war

A leaked intelligence report tells us that the war in Iraq has made global terrorism worse. As if we didn’t know. Getting out of Iraq should be top of our agenda. And getting out of Afghanistan should be next. Does this mean giving up the fight against Islamic fanatics? Of course not. Saving western civilization at home and on home ground must be our priority—in Europe, in the Americas, and in Australia. It may be an ugly business and familiar civil rights could be curtailed. If that’s the price of survival so be it. Fortress USA will again be an essential part of the campaign.

Israel

Israel (an embattled European colony in hostile territory) exists for two reasons—religious prophecy and the guilt of the West. Neither are entirely convincing legitimations, and the state may well become militarily untenable in the years ahead. As we gradually liquidate our interest in the Middle East, generous evacuation plans might be a humane solution to a conflict both sides are unable to settle by themselves. Ancient hallucinations about promised land for chosen people must be dispelled. The West must not indefinitely be held hostage to its own creation.

October 2006