What the world needs now!
According to the song, it’s love. Alas, that song was written for different times.
Of course, the world can always use a heaping dose of love; but what the western world needs more than love right now is a strong leader – a leader with vision and courage and fortitude. One who has a clear vision of where the West needs to be taken.
Leaders like Churchill, Reagan, and Thatcher come immediately to mind. They were all great in their own way. Churchill saved Britain and helped save the world from Nazi tyranny. Reagan saw off communism and brought the Berlin Wall down. Thatcher saved Britain from socialism, and played a very significant part in defeating communism along with Reagan, her great ally. These were no mean achievements!
These leaders knew exactly what they wanted to achieve: they had clear vision, and saw nothing but the big picture. Nor did they allow themselves to be led by the opinion polls. Indeed, Thatcher is quoted as having said: I didn’t come into politics to be popular. I came into politics to do the right thing. She wouldn’t allow herself to be side-tracked by what others thought of her policies; rather, she simply forged ahead with what she knew would be right for the country. She entered politics to put the 'great’ back into ‘Great Britain’, and put the ‘great’ back into 'Great Britain' she did! Churchill was in politics to win the war, and win the war he did! (Along with the aid of the USA, of course.) Reagan wanted to defeat communism, and defeat communism he did! (Along with the aid of the UK, of course.)
What we have today is something quite different from these three great people. For example, in Britain today, we have a leader – Blair – who busies himself with the small things of politics. He lacks clear vision, and seems to be unable to see the big picture.
Whereas Margaret Thatcher spent her time freeing up the people, Tony Blair has spent his time in office taking their freedoms away! No longer can one smack one’s children when a smack is needed, no longer can one go fox-hunting, and soon the British will see their freedom of speech curtailed, and their right to smoke in any public place. Are these the kinds of policies which make the leader great? This is what is generally called: Fiddling while Rome burns!
President Bush in the US also has his shortcomings. He is a likeable sort of fellow, I know; but, as the leader of the free world, he needs to define the threat to the free world more clearly. He needs to identify what the real enemy is. The real enemy is, as all good thinking people know, Islam.
No, Mr President! Osama bin Laden, contrary to popular myth, has not bastardized the religion of Islam at all. What Osama espouses is Islam – the real thing! So our real enemy is not some vague threat of terrorism, but the jihad. The jihad is, of course, a form of terrorism. It is, was, and always will be. But let’s be certain that it is a manifestation of Islam on the move, of Islam now empowered with petrodollars and, as Muslims the world over are bound to perceive, of an increasingly weakened West! A West that knows not whither!
Wars can be fought on the offensive or on the defensive. But wars are won only when waged on the offensive; they are generally lost when waged on the defensive. Offence is always the best defence. As I see it, Mr President, you are fighting this war on the defensive.
Yes, it is true that you have been successful in keeping the American people safe from further attack. But Churchill would not have been anything like as successful as he was if all he had done was to save the British from the Luftwaffe and its Blitzkrieg! He needed to go on the attack. He had to thwart the enemy’s ambitions at every turn. And he had to turn the enemy back.
Further, it has to be said that Reagan, Churchill, and Thatcher all had one thing in common: they were all good orators. They could stir the people to action by giving stirring speeches. They could lead from the front. They made people listen to them. They insisted on getting their way. It was their way or no way!
But more than this: This isn’t a time for petty politics. School programs, tinkering with taxes, passing petty legislation – these are all things to be concentrated on in less difficult times. Now we have an implacable enemy before us. The enemy needs to be dealt with. It needs to be defeated. Economically, politically, militarily – whichever way is best!
And nor is the enemy just Islamic terrorism in the form of the jihad, either. We have Islam spreading peacefully here at home in the West. Daily, now, we can read stories of mosques springing up, of Islamic schools being built, and of businesses being taken over by Middle Eastern money. This needs to be stopped, and at whatever cost to the nation, at whatever cost to the free world! What price freedom? If we allow this nonsense to continue, and to continue at this rate, then we will be left with a West we will no longer be able to recognize! It will have been so Islamized that it will not be any longer the West as we know the West to be.
When are our leaders going to do something meaningful about these developments? When is someone going to have the courage to stand up and say what the West stands for, what underpins western values, what matters to us?
But one more thing needs to be mentioned: We need to cut the oleaginous umbilical cord that keeps us tied to the Islamic world. This should be a matter of the highest priority.
We all know what one of the main problems here is: It’s the power of the oil companies. Well do something about that power! Have the courage to take that oriental carpet away from under the oil companies’ feet, just as Thatcher had the courage to take the carpet away from under the feet of the unions!
The unions once wielded the power in the United Kingdom. The question on everybody’s lips was: Who runs the country? But Thatcher took them on in an almighty fight. She showed them who ran the country! It was an experience they never forgot! God, it took some stamina on her part! But by God, she won!
If we continue to allow the oil companies to run the West like this, we will soon have no western civilization to speak of: It will have been given away to the oil rich Arabs, given away for them to Islamize it! For they are Muslims all!
This is our only hope of winning this war of civilizations; and make no mistake about it: A war of civilizations it truly is!
We must regain our independence of the oil-rich Arabs, we must take back control of our own destiny, we must defeat this creeping Islamization, we must be triumphant. For without triumph, the West will be no more! To achieve this, we have to use our technology to our advantage, we have to free ourselves of the increasing power of Islam in the West. We must remain FREE and WHOLE!
These are some of the things that the world needs now!
©Mark Alexander
6 comments:
Mark, Another brilliant post! The root of the problem is that DECENT PEOPLE will not run for office these days. This is primarily a problem generated by the media who need to fill 24/7 with "news." They dig up the dirt on every candidate for high office and play it over again and again. As a result, DECENT PEOPLE won't run and we get these naive, stupid and inept politicians. These poor wretches do not "come up to the ankles" of the likes of Churchill, Thatcher and Reagan. They are extraordinarily weak and pathetic incompetents who can't fight their way out of a paper bag! Unless we are able to get strong leaders into high office soon, we will continue the downward slide leading to destruction.
As part of this week's tribute to Ronald Reagan, I've been doing a bit of research on the man. He cared nothing for the polls. On the other hand, today's leaders, for the most part (GWB is an exception here) pander to the poll stats. It's disgusting!
The ties to oil and oil money are bringing down the Western system of governance and will eventually bring down Western economy if the Middle East cuts of the supply of petroleum. On top of that, political correctness and the insane touchy-feely obsession with understanding the enemy, which amounts to appeasing the enemy, pervades the culture in almost every Western nation. We can thank the educational institutions for incessantly promoting pc, which leads to NOT understanding the enemy at all.
Say this loud and often: Osama bin Laden, contrary to popular myth, has not bastardized the religion of Islam at all. What Osama espouses is Islam – the real thing! Not recognizing the truth leads us farther down the path of destruction.
Oh, for a leader with vision--vision that has eyes wide open to the deadly reality!
Problem is, those of us who understand Islam are not in positions of power. But as long as we keep proclaiming the truth on the web and in print, we still have a voice.
Not recognizing the truth leads us farther down the path of destruction.
How true these words are!
When will someone, anyone, tell it like it is?
Mark, London based journalist Gwynne Dyer's latest offering was in Auckland's morning paper. He tries to morally equate Ronald Reagan with the current Iranian President. The reason? Ahmadinejad stated he wants to wipe Israel off the map; Reagan once joked about bombing Russia. This is the sort of garbage we're up against daily. Here's an exert:
"Ahmadinejad's comment was as foolish as Ronald Reagan's famous remark into a microphone that he didn't know was open: 'My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you today that I have signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes.'
"Nobody doubted that Reagan wanted the "evil empire" to be wiped from the face of the earth, but nobody seriously believed that he intended to attack it."
Whose worse - Islam, or its appeasers?
Leelion:
Thanks for this interesting and informative comment.
If Gwynne Dyer equates Reagan and Ahmadinejad morally, then so much for his powers of analysis! And so much for his insights, too!
As you rightly say: Reagans words were in jest (though we all know the "evil empire" for him was a blot on the landscape); Ahmadinejad's words about Israel, by contrast, are for real.
I wouldn't trust the President of Iran with a child's cap gun!
Mussolini:
The way politics has developed in the post-war period makes it very difficult for us to respond at all, I fear.
Because of the Holocaust in Germany, people have become super-sensitive to being labelled racist or prejudiced.
This super-sensitivity is quite understandable in many ways, because of the disgraceful way that the Jews were treated by the Nazis; but it does render the West rather emasculated in dealing with this threat to our civilization, especially since so many laws have been passed which make it very difficult for a leader to stand up in public and state the truth.
It's difficult to see where we go from here, except downwards.
Usiconoclasticpatriot raised a very good point yesterday when he said that the media, too, make it difficult for quality people to enter politics. Who, after all, wants the media on his back, watching his every word, just waiting to pounce when he gets something wrong.
Then there is the feminization of politics, too. So many women have entered politics today that one cannot help wondering if their feminine side is preventing tougher decisions being made!
Thatcher was, as Reagan put it, the "best man that Britain has", or words to that effect. Margaret Thatcher was, however, the exception to the rule. Not many women have the makings of becoming the "Iron Lady"!
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