March 9, 2006

Steyn On The Radio

Read the whole Mark Steyn interview by guest host Jed Babbin on the Hugh Hewitt Show today.

JB: We're fighting an ideological war. And it seems to me that the kinetic war, the bullets and bombs, are no more and no less important than the ideological war. And the ideological war is really not being fought. I mean, how should we be doing this, Mark?

MS: Well, I think we have to be able to address it honestly. I mean, for example, you saw in this bizarre thing at the University of North Carolina, where an American...an Iranian Muslim goes to rent a big Jeep Cherokee for the purpose of crashing it into as many bodies as possible, at the university he was studying at just a couple of months ago. And the unwillingness to address the fact that he was motivated by his Muslim identity to do that, the fact that we cannot even address that honestly, five years after the war, is, I think, a problem. We have to be able to say look, there are millions of law-abiding, peaceful Muslims around the world, but nevertheless, the fact of the matter is that Islam is the main challenge to Western civilization at this hour....

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JB: Well, have we not gone from tragedy to farce already? I mean, we have, for Heaven's sake, at one of the top schools in the United States, we have a former part of the Taliban government, unreconstructed, enrolled at the school. I mean, how much farther can we descend into political correctness?

MS: Well, exactly. And these are the same Ivy League colleges that refused to let ROTC on campus, because they have the don't ask, don't tell policy on gays in the military. The Taliban doesn't have a don't ask, don't tell. Even if you don't ask, they build a wall and crush you if you're homosexual. I mean, this is the complete decadence of the kind of non-judgmental, multi-cultural, everything's equal thing. And that is the way...people are very foolish, They don't realize that incrementally, you can lose your world, unless you're prepared to actually make a choice about which values, which society you want to live in.

Posted by dan at March 9, 2006 8:58 PM