More strategic thinking.

Tim Montgomerie writes about Britain's vulnerability in 2007. Chief among the reasons therefor are these:

• Appeasement of Iran.
• Appeasement of internal threats.
• Unfounded faith in the United Nations.
• Little strategic thinking.

We are constantly dismayed by failure of the West to assert itself and its willingness to be held hostage by pantywaists, vicious internal enemies, and crippling fantasies about what is the true foundation of domestic and world order.

Now we must be diverted from our own internal struggles over the proper role of government and other issues to deal with the unexpected reemergence of a bizarre and pestilential political doctrine that would have no more political influence than a single Pizza Hut store, were it not for an unmerited access to vast streams of oil wealth.

These are times in which we must all return to an examination of first principles in all areas. Powerful minds have contributed to obfuscation and confusion even at home. Their same doctrines have transferred to the arena where the struggle with Islam is taking place, with similar destructive results.

Thus, to the points discussed by Mr. Montgomerie (applicable specifically to the British), we add these:

• Inappropriate obeisance toward the principle of sovereign independence where backward Arab countries that sponsor terror and subversion are concerned.
• Insufficient understanding of the tradition of free speech and free inquiry.
• Wildly inappropriate tolerance of the clearly subversive and deficient "religion" of Islam and its adherents.
• Abandonment of the male warrior ethic.
• Inability to distinguish between appropriate forms of discrimination and inappropriate ones.
• Tolearance of legal oppression on the part of legal, ethnic, and religious special interest groups.

Disagree with any or all of our items or those of Mr. Montgomerie if you will, but that will not obviate the necessity to examine first principles. The assumptions of the recent 40 years are bearing fruit and that fruit is not sweet.

"It's a long way from Port Stanley to the Shatt-al-Arab waterway." By Tim Montgomerie, BritainAndAmerica.com, 4/2/07.