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Published on November 30, 2004 By cheeryo In Current Events
Herbert E. Meyer served during the Reagan Administration as Special Assistant to the Director of Central Intelligence and Vice Chairman of the CIA's National Intelligence Council. His DVD on The Siege of Western Civilization is a nationwide best-seller.



November 11th, 2004
By Herbert E. Meyer




Are you nuts?



Forgive me for being so blunt, but your reaction to our re-election of President Bush

has been so outrageous that I'm wondering if you have quite literally lost your

minds. One of Britain's largest newspapers ran a headline asking "How Can 59 Million

Americans Be So Dumb?", and commentators in France all seemed to use the same word -

bizarre -- to explain the election's outcome to their readers. In Germany the

editors of Die Tageszeitung responded to our vote by writing that "Bush belongs at a

war tribunal - not in the White House." And on a London radio talk show last week

one Jeremy Hardy described our President and those of us who voted for him as

"stupid, crazy, ignorant, bellicose Christian fundamentalists."



Of course, you are entitled to whatever views about us that you care to hold. (And

lucky for you we Americans aren't like so many of the Muslims on your own continent;

as the late Dutch film maker Theo van Gogh just discovered, make one nasty crack

about them and you're likely to get six bullets pumped into your head and a knife

plunged into your chest.) But before you write us off as just a bunch of sweaty,

hairy-chested, Bible-thumping morons who are more likely to break their fast by

dipping a Krispy Kreme into a diet cola than a biscotti into an espresso - and who

inexplicably have won more Nobel prizes than all other countries combined, host 25 or

30 of the world's finest universities and five or six of the world's best symphonies,

produce wines that win prizes at your own tasting competitions, have built the

world's most vibrant economy, are the world's only military superpower and, so to

speak in our spare time, have landed on the moon and sent our robots to Mars - may I

suggest you stop frothing at the mouth long enough to consider just what are these

ideas we hold that you find so silly and repugnant?



We believe that church and state should be separate, but that religion should remain

at the center of life. We are a Judeo-Christian culture, which means we consider

those ten things on a tablet to be commandments, not suggestions. We believe that

individuals are more important than groups, that families are more important than

governments, that children should be raised by their parents rather than by the

State, and that marriage should take place only between a man and a woman. We

believe that rights must be balanced by responsibilities, that personal freedom is a

privilege we must be careful not to abuse, and that the rule of law cannot be set

aside when it becomes inconvenient. We believe in economic liberty, and in the right

of purposeful and industrious entrepreneurs to run their businesses - and thus create

jobs - with a minimum of government interference. We recognize that other people see

things differently, and we are tolerant of their views. But we believe that our

country is worth defending, and if anyone decides that killing us is an okay thing to

do we will go after them with everything we've got.



If these beliefs seem strange to you, they shouldn't. For these are precisely the

beliefs that powered Western Europe - you -- from the Middle Ages into the

Renaissance, on to the Enlightenment, and forward into the modern world. They are

the beliefs that made Europe itself the glory of Western civilization and - not

coincidentally - ignited the greatest outpouring of art, literature, music and

scientific discovery the world has ever known including Michaelangelo, Leonardo da

Vinci, Shakespeare, Bach, Isaac Newton and Descartes.





Europe is Dying



It is your abandonment of these beliefs that has created the gap between Europe and

the United States. You have ceased to be a Judeo-Christian culture, and have become

instead a secular culture. And a secular culture quickly goes from being

"un-religious" to anti-religious. Indeed, your hostility to the basic concepts of

Judaism and Christianity has literally been written into your new European Union

constitution, despite the Pope's heroic efforts to the contrary.



Your rate of marriage is at an all-time low, and the number of abortions in Europe is

at an all-time high. Indeed, your birth rates are so far below replacement levels

that in 30 years or so there will be 70 million fewer Europeans alive than are alive

today. Europe is literally dying. And of the children you do manage to produce, all

too few will be raised in stable, two-parent households.



Your economy is stagnant because your government regulators make it just about

impossible for your entrepreneurs to succeed - except by fleeing to the United

States, where we welcome them and celebrate their success.



And your armed forces are a joke. With the notable exception of Great Britain, you

no longer have the military strength to defend yourselves. Alas, you no longer have

the will to defend yourselves.



What worries me even more than all this is your willful blindness. You refuse to

see that it is you, not we Americans, who have abandoned Western Civilization. It's

worrisome because, to tell you the truth, we need each other. Western Civilization

today is under siege, from radical Islam on the outside and from our own selfish

hedonism within. It's going to take all of our effort, our talent, our creativity

and, above all, our will to pull through. So take a good, hard look at yourselves

and see what your own future will be if you don't change course. And please, stop

sneering at America long enough to understand it. After all, Western Civilization

was your gift to us, and you ought to be proud of what we

Americans have made of it.


Comments
on Nov 30, 2004
Great article>>>>>>>>>> bet you do not get many responces from the lunyleft or other countries. Its like I have stated many times before, the world in general is jealous of america and wants to be like us here, but cannot due to there sick sad liberal secular ideas.
on Nov 30, 2004
Concur!! It's easier to bash us but where do they all want to live??? Plus, the lunyleft talk a fair fight but Canadian immigration is not up as they all threatened.... Great stuff!!

FM