Patrick J. Buchanan September 8, 2015
‘Liberalism
is the ideology of Western suicide,” wrote James Burnham in his 1964 “Suicide of the West.”
Burnham
predicted that the mindless magnanimity of liberals, who subordinate the
interests of their own people and nations to utopian and altruistic impulses,
would bring about an end to Western civilization.
Was he
wrong? Consider what is happening in Europe.
Serbia,
Hungary and Slovakia, small nations sensing they will be swamped by asylum
seekers from the Muslim world, are trying to seal their borders and secure
their homelands.
Their instinct
for survival, their awareness of lifeboat ethics, is acute. Yet they are being
condemned for trying to save themselves.
Meanwhile,
the pope calls on Catholics everywhere
to welcome the ‘asylum seekers’ (un-vetted, possible rapists, jihadists and
murderers) and Angela Merkel will be taking in 800,000 this year alone, though
the grumbling has begun in Bavaria.
This is but the beginning of what is to come, if
Europe does not pull up the drawbridge.
For the
scores of thousands of Syrians in the Balkans, Hungary, Austria and Germany are
only the first wave. Behind them in Lebanon, Turkey and Jordan are 4 million
refugees from the Syrian civil war. Seeing the success of the first wave, they
are now on the move.
Behind
them are 2 million Alawites and 2 million Christians who will be fleeing Syria
when the Bashar Assad regime falls to ISIS and the al-Qaeda terrorists who
already occupy half of that blood-soaked land.
Now the
Iraqis, who live in a country the prospects for whose reunification and peace
are receding, have begun to move. Also among the thousands pouring into Europe
from Turkey are Pakistanis, Bangladeshis and Afghans. When the Americans leave
Afghanistan and the Taliban take their revenge, more Afghans will be fleeing
west.
Africa
has a billion people, a number that will double by 2050, and double again to 4
billion by 2100. Are those billions of Africans going to endure lives of
poverty under ruthless, incompetent, corrupt and tyrannical regimes, if
Europe’s door remains wide open?
What is
coming is not difficult to predict.
Europe is going to run out of altruism long before
it runs out of refugees. For as The New York Times reported Monday, there is no end in sight to
the coming Third World and Islamic migrations to Europe.
Humanitarian
groups, said the Times, claim “successive waves of migrants … are on the way,
perhaps for months or even years, until the wars, poverty and other underlying
causes of the dislocations have abated.”
But with
terrorism expanding from Nigeria to the Maghreb to the Middle East, wars
spreading, and tyranny pandemic in those regions, will not a peaceful,
prosperous and free Europe always be a magnet?
If Europe
does not seal its borders, what is to stop the Islamic world and Third World
from coming and repopulating the continent with their own kind, as the
shrinking native populations of Europe die out?
Will Old Europe even be recognizable by mid-century?
The inevitable reaction to what is happening has
already begun.
European
nations will divide with anti-immigrant parties like the National Front in
France and UKIP in Britain gaining adherents until the major parties embrace
restrictions on immigration or are swept aside.
Already
there is a backlash in Germany and Austria to the tens of thousands invited in.
Eastern
Europe, with shrinking populations of native-born, has shown little interest in
admitting migrants.
Though attacked by his opposition, Israel’s Bibi Netanyahu will not be admitting Arab and Muslim asylum seekers. Having built a fence from Gaza to Eilat to keep Africans from crossing the Sinai, a wall to separate the West Bank from Israel, Bibi is now building a fence on the Jordanian border.
Though attacked by his opposition, Israel’s Bibi Netanyahu will not be admitting Arab and Muslim asylum seekers. Having built a fence from Gaza to Eilat to keep Africans from crossing the Sinai, a wall to separate the West Bank from Israel, Bibi is now building a fence on the Jordanian border.
The
Palestinian Authority’s Mahmoud Abbas says he would welcome Palestinian asylum
seekers. Both sides know that, in this struggle, demography may very well be
destiny.
The
Schengen Agreement that guarantees “open borders” among EU nations is also
unlikely to survive this invasion. The old national borders of Europe will be
re-established.
And as
divisions deepen within and between countries over how many to accept, and when
to shut the door, the EU may itself crack up over this most momentous and
emotional of issues.
The
scores of thousands of migrants bursting into Europe and the hundreds of
thousands and millions coming after them are going to force Europeans to
address an existential question.
Who are
we? Are we unique and separate peoples of a particular race and tribe, history
and faith, language and culture, identifiable to all the world and worth
preserving at the price of our lives?
Are we
Germans, Russians, Poles, Italians, Spanish and French first?
Or are we
simply Europeans, people who live on the world’s smallest continent and share a
belief in the equality of all peoples and cultures, and in secularism and
social democracy?
Liberal
Man almost alone excepted, every species of animal life reacts or recoils when
another species intrudes upon its turf.
Thus, in
the end, Burnham was probably right.
Liberalism
is the ideology of Western suicide.
'Angela Merkel will be taking in 800,000
this year alone.' REALLY?
WELL AFTER YOU, MILADY!
There are huge mansions and apartments belonging to Arabs, Chinese and 'Russians' in the west end of London standing empty for most of the year, they are just 'investments'! Probably the same in all of Europe's big cities - Berlin, Paris, etc. Let's fill them up with refugees!
No she will NOT, on her orders the
German people will have to take 800,000 and house them in their public housing
complexes and working-class housing estates. But MERKEL like the Queen, Al
Fayed, Cameron, Sturgeon, Salmon, Blair, Abbott, the Milibands, Obama, the Bushes
and the Clintons, etc. although owning numerous, huge properties, will not take
any 'refugees' into their own homes at all. Or their rich, posh mates who kiss
their butts! It is always the same, a case of do-as-I-say, not, do-what-I-do.
The rich are utterly shameless! They have caused this huge problem but the poor
working-class will have practically all of these 'refugees' dumped on them,
their housing associations will have to give these migrants priority over their
own working-class people. It's always
the same.