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Déjà Vu: Apologists Unfurl Stale Arguments

Submitted by Patrick O'Neill, Jul 2, 2007 11:24

Every civilization waxes and wanes between being soft and being (necessarily) hard. We are reaching the nadir of our liberal squishiness and will come back out but possibly only after more horrific events.

It is true that we learn from history but sometimes the narrative is too laden with guilt that we are frozen in being strong - recall the immense guilt of internment of japanese-americans and japanese-canadians during WWII and the ongoing angst of most dealing with natives (in Australis, Canada etc). It is these guilts that prevent us from being strong in the defense of the superiority of our way of life. If life is progressive it is progressing towards our way of life - it is not progress to give honour to the voice of anti-secularism, anti-liberalism in the guise of tolerance.

Enough already!

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