NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER: A Parting of Ways
Regnery, Alfred S.
WILL NEVER FORGET WANDERING throughtheAmerican Cemetery near Omaha Beach in Normandy several years ago. Nearly 10,000 American boys are buried there, in row upon row of graves, each with a...
...Of course, there are some of those right here as well, the "hate-America crowd," as the late Jeane Kirkpatrick called them...
...One's country is worth dying for, and democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man...
...If the bombs that went off in the London underground two summers ago were not enough to awaken Britain, perhaps the demographic time bomb will, before it is too late...
...American soldiers who were willing to die to preserve liberty in Europedidsowithoutmuchofanypersonalreward.So why are Europeans not willing to make even the least sacrificefortheirownliberty...
...Who would like to see us succeed, and who to see us fail...
...Said Ronald Reagan of the men who died there, "You all knew that some things are worth dying for...
...George Orwell once wrote of the "deep, deep sleep of England, from which I sometimes fear that we shall never wake till we are jerked out of it by the roar of bombs...
...It is a moving sight...
...One of the questions that inevitably arise is, who are our friends in this business...
...One need only walk around cities such as Leeds or Bradford, where nearly a third of the population is dressed in Muslim garb, to recognize the demographic problem that plagues Great Britain...
...But what is more dishearteningisthereactionofourWesternEuropeanallies-those who, we would like to think, are behind us and areourfriends.Buttheyarenot,Mr.Johnsontellsus, not anymore...
...All of youlovedliberty.Allofyouwerewillingtofighttyranny, and you knew the people of your countries were behindyou...
...by Alfred S. Regnery N O T EF R O MT H EP U B L I S H E R 6 T H E A M E R I C A N S P E C T A T O R M A R C H 2 0 0 7 APartingofWays I...
...32), provides us with a moving piece on the attitude that pervades Europe about America.Why,asksJohnson--whoisaEuropeanhimself--when the rewards of liberty have been so amply demonstratedtothepeoplesofEuropebytheeffortsof Americans, do the Europeans have such antipathy toward us...
...Nearly 10,000 American boys are buried there, in row upon row of graves, each with a small stone marker, perfectly aligned and all perfectly caredfor.Mostwerekilledintheinvasionin1944,the invasionthatliberatedFranceandultimatelyEurope from fascism...
...Alfred S. Regnery, publisher of The American Spectator, is writing a book on the conservative movement...
...Over the past several months, we have examined the particulars of spreading liberty and democracy around the world...
...Let's face it: Western Europeans are no longer reliable allies of the United States...
...DanielJohnson,aspartofourTempletonserieson liberty and democracy (p...
...As our efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan become bogged down in sectarian hatred and civil war, it is apparent that for the few people in that part of the world who want us to succeed, many more want us to fail...
...Why do the people who were closest to the Communist menace, whose borders bumped up againstconcretebarriers,barbedwire,andmachineguns, andwhosesecuritywaslargelyprovidedbyUncleSam, have no will to resist tyranny themselves...
...Daniel Pipes, director of the Middle East Forum, believes that nearly half of all British Muslims wouldrather be subject to Sharia than to the British legal system.That,claimsPipes,meansthatperhapshalfof all British Muslims are Islamist...
Vol. 40 • March 2007 • No. 2
