Where is the West?
By Thomas Sowell
By Thomas Sowell
European nations protesting Saddam Hussein's death sentence, as they protested against forcing secrets out of captured terrorists, should tell us all we need to know about the internal degeneration of western society, where so many confuse squeamishness with morality.
Two generations of being insulated from the reality of the international jungle, of not having to defend their own survival because they have been living under the protection of the American nuclear umbrella, have allowed too many Europeans to grow soft and indulge themselves in illusions about brutal realities and dangers.
The very means of their salvation have been demonized for decades in anti-nuclear movements and protesters calling themselves "anti-war." But there is a huge difference between being anti-war in words and being anti-war in deeds.
How many times, in its thousands of years of history, has Europe gone 60 years without a major war, as it has since World War II? That peace has been due to American nuclear weapons, which was all that could deter the Soviet Union's armies from marching right across Europe to the Atlantic Ocean.
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DR. THOMAS SOWELL in my humble opinion is America's best living scholar, thinker and writer. Period. You can't argue with me, because you probably haven't read any thing he has written. A Black Man writing a column in the Jewish World Review? I guarantee you that very few liberals have read any of his columns, or for that matter any of the many books he has written. Any real conservative worth his or her salt knows who Thomas Sowell is, and has read a lot of his writings.
I wish America had a choice of voting for such a scholar, author, teacher and mentor......FOR PRESIDENT IN 2008.
The choices we will have in 2008 for president are not worthy to carry Dr. Sowell's books to his next lecture.
I had a dream that Rick Santorum, Lt. Gov. Steele, Jim Talent, Lynn Swann, Catherine Harris, Tom Delay, Newt Gingrich and THOMAS SOWELL and many more of the demonized by the media conservatives, formed a new political party in America. And started telling the truth, and America woke up.
Two generations of being insulated from the reality of the international jungle, of not having to defend their own survival because they have been living under the protection of the American nuclear umbrella, have allowed too many Europeans to grow soft and indulge themselves in illusions about brutal realities and dangers.
The very means of their salvation have been demonized for decades in anti-nuclear movements and protesters calling themselves "anti-war." But there is a huge difference between being anti-war in words and being anti-war in deeds.
How many times, in its thousands of years of history, has Europe gone 60 years without a major war, as it has since World War II? That peace has been due to American nuclear weapons, which was all that could deter the Soviet Union's armies from marching right across Europe to the Atlantic Ocean.
To continue reading the article from JWR.
DR. THOMAS SOWELL in my humble opinion is America's best living scholar, thinker and writer. Period. You can't argue with me, because you probably haven't read any thing he has written. A Black Man writing a column in the Jewish World Review? I guarantee you that very few liberals have read any of his columns, or for that matter any of the many books he has written. Any real conservative worth his or her salt knows who Thomas Sowell is, and has read a lot of his writings.
I wish America had a choice of voting for such a scholar, author, teacher and mentor......FOR PRESIDENT IN 2008.
The choices we will have in 2008 for president are not worthy to carry Dr. Sowell's books to his next lecture.
I had a dream that Rick Santorum, Lt. Gov. Steele, Jim Talent, Lynn Swann, Catherine Harris, Tom Delay, Newt Gingrich and THOMAS SOWELL and many more of the demonized by the media conservatives, formed a new political party in America. And started telling the truth, and America woke up.
What a dream,
a political party
that will do more
than simply talk about
conservativeness,
they will practice it.
a political party
that will do more
than simply talk about
conservativeness,
they will practice it.
You may not take the time to read all of Dr. Thomas Sowell's column, but listen to his final sentence, and think.
"If and when we all succumb, will the epitaph of western civilization say that we had the power to annihilate our enemies but were so paralyzed by confusion that we ended up being annihilated ourselves?"
"If and when we all succumb, will the epitaph of western civilization say that we had the power to annihilate our enemies but were so paralyzed by confusion that we ended up being annihilated ourselves?"
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