We live in strange times. The “elites” comfortably ensconced in Western democracies, laden with a surfeit of Marxism, double-think, entitlement, greed, and self-loathing, and expensively mulled in a broth of multi-culti, smug UN-think, and arrogance, are so deeply mired in lethal denial that they cling to policies of appeasement-at-all-costs. I wonder how they will adapt when Sharia law comes to their neck of the woods with beheadings on the town green, or when an Iranian mushroom cloud sprouts where Trafalgar Square, or the Louvre, or Times Square used to be. A certain amount of discomfort may well abruptly appear in those cosseted lives. Who will they blame then? George Bush? No doubt. As for the rest of the populaces of the Free World, they seem, for the most part, anesthetized and unable to grasp the enormity of the dangers we all face. Take your pick for the reasons for this daze.
Given this backdrop, the hollow verbal flailings, and impotent démarches that Ms. Rosett mordantly describes seem to be all that can be expected from this crowd. What will it take for these sleepers to awake? Will they ever awake?
An excellent editorial in Investor’s Business Daily, Rue Britannia, reviews further the sad decline of Britain and the West. “Britain’s response to Iran suggests the British lion now keeps its teeth in a jar.” – the entire truth of the situation in one painful sentence. The editorial ends with a quotation from Winston Churchill’s book, The Gathering Storm, about the years before the start of World War II. The whole editorial should be read again and again.
Would that our Government had, and will read, take to heart, and act upon Churchill’s sound advice to the House of Commons in his 14 March 1938 speech (after the annexation of Austria by the Nazis):
“Long delay would be harmful. Why should we assume that time is on our side? I know of nothing to convince me that if the evil forces now at work are suffered to feed upon their successes and upon their victims our task will be easier when finally we are all united. Not only do we need a clear declaration of the Government’s policy, but we require to set to work to rally the whole country behind that declared policy, in order that there may not be shifts and changes, as well as that there may not be any doubt or hesitation. It will certainly be no easier for us to face the problems with which we are confronted a year hence than it is today. Indeed, we might easily delay resistance to a point where continued resistance and true collective security would become impossible.”

Passover begins tonight. This year, as the world is at war, but refuses to believe it, with the survival of the tenets of democratic society in the balance, Passover affords everyone the opportunity to reflect upon the nature of freedom, what it brings to our lives, its sweetness, the vibrant creativity it nurtures, and, yes, its cost, lest we end up tasting the bitter herbs of slavery on a planetary level.