” . . . sophisticated about everything except its own naïveté.”

Amen. Those who offer passport ownership as a self-congratulatory demonstration of multi-culti-global-citizen bona fides are often quickest to project their parochial values upon the rest of the world.

Cloistered in intellectual hothouses where conciliation, compromise and non-judgmentalism are valued reflexively over confidence, conviction and decisiveness, they connot understand that in the more Hobbesian neighborhoods of our planet, such a posture is viewed as a weakness to be exploited and as an invitation to aggression.

They do not understand that pacifism, metrosexuality and the cheap moral vanity available to those within the safety of the West are only possible if the world’s predators agree to play along or those predators are proactively kept at bay.