Tuesday, October 17, 2006

Who is Regnery and Why Are Its Editors So Blood-Thirsty?

If you wonder why the line between left and right in this country is hard it is because of diamond crushing pressures like this; a publisher, backed by ideologues fueling war-mongering nationalism. When will it be time to get to the bottom of Regnery? When will it be time to boycott all the products and the businesses its owners fuel? When will good reasoning liberals stop letting paranoid seperatists like Regnery and Mark Steyn (is that a clone writer for David Horowitz?) drive us down. Why is their agenda so bloodthirsty? Why do they see hate where others are clearly showing fear and the need for understanding? Why do they want to kill, breed and dominate? Are they just neanderthals after all?

Liberals ran the world for decades--nationally and internationally--and for the wars we entered and even those we rightly conceded (Vietnam)--there was never the global explosion of hate and fear against the United States as has ensued since Neocon empirists have taken hold with Reagan. We used to make peace where there was conflict that could hold at least until the world and resources evolved to a point of possible change. We held uneasy truces and demagogues continued to pop up here and there--isolated (like Saddam) and rare (like Amin)--unable to connect with the basic resource of terrorism--unmitigated poverty. Now? Globablism has driven more populations into grinding poverty. Failed Mid-East talks intentionally abandoned by a neocon-driven foreign policy have driven desperate Arabs further into deeper desperation, especially in the hottest spot of all--Palestine. The threat of terrorism is spreading like a brush fire. And what is the nationalists' response?

Burn baby, burn:
America is hated for every reason.

Fanatical Muslims say we are too decadent. Secular Europeans think we are Bible-thumping rednecks. Anti-Semites hate us for supporting Israel. Too Jewish, too Christian, too godless... whatever you're against, America is the prime example of it.

So says conservative columnist Mark Steyn in his first and eagerly awaited new book, America Alone.

With disarming wit and startling clarity, Steyn shows how the world is irrevocably changing and how America must get serious and fight, or be consumed.

As Steyn puts it, "the future belongs to the fertile and the confident." And the Islamists are both, while the West—wedded to a multiculturalism that undercuts its own confidence, a welfare state that nudges it toward sloth and self-indulgence, and a childlessness that consigns it to oblivion—is looking ever more like the ruins of a civilization.

But Steyn also shows why the future, if the West has one, belongs to America alone.

America Alone will change the way you look at the world. It is sure to be the most talked-about book of the year.