It's a War, Stupid

Christopher Chantrill points out the fatal flaw of the isolated elites in the West who still think that one can negotiate with barbarians. But while the modern world has moved on from primitive tribalism, the world of Islamofascism is stuck in a barbarous past that is blind to the forces which have improved, and are improving, the lot of much of the rest of the developing world.

For in our part of the world, we live by the principle of trade and voluntary cooperation. Over the last several thousand years the West has learned, and refined, the methods of modern civilization and social organization which have allowed us to have both extraordinary levels of personal freedom as well as a constantly improving standard of living and advancing technological progress.

Civilization is the name we give to that form of social organization in which the individual has rights and force is used as a last resort in conflicts. America, Europe and Asia have largely adopted the ways of Western political and social organization and the result has been a swift and massive increase in the standard of living in that part of the world which is still accelerating.

But the dull Arab savages are still clinging to their primitive tribal ways and the violence that is the inevitable result of despotism and tyranny. Millions of Arabs are still blinded by their fantasy of a mythical Islamic past, unable and unwilling to look to a different future. They have so far refused to join the rest of the world on the path to modernity and they have paid the price in poverty, misery and isolation from the rest of the world. Their only solution has been to blame everyone else, and particularly the Jews, for their problems while refusing to examine how their own beliefs have contributed to their unhappiness. It is long past time for them to grow up and act like adults and join the rest of the civilized world. For their own sakes, they need to renounce forever the violent and backwards doctrine of Jihad and to understand and accept that they are just another people in a wide world and that they have no right to attack other nations and cultures for the purpose of imposing their abhorrent tribalist society on the rest of us.