Trashing America: The Trend Continues

I am an adjunct professor of English at a community college in New Jersey. Two weeks ago, I happened upon a research paper assigned by another professor on the War on Terror. It became apparent to me that his topic was a typical left slant suggesting that America fully deserved to be attacked. I decided to write this response for all the world to see.

When the hijacked jets crashed into the Twin Towers in 2001, the collapse of these icons of American power acted as a flash point that focused attention on a trend that had been widespread throughout America and much of the west for the last thirty years. This trend is a carefully plotted attempt first to marginalize America then to render it impotent in ways that can only bring smiles to those who wish to include Israel in the cross hairs. When one realizes that the unholy nexus of anti-Americanism, anti-Semitism, and the inevitability of European demographics reaches a confluence in the need of the western Left and Islamofascism to trash America, then this three decade trend to demonize America both in its own eyes and in those of the rest of the world stands revealed in a crystal clarity that is breathtaking in its overtness and vitriol.
The current War on Terror is used so often by both sides of the American political spectrum that there is an understandable tendency to place war in the context of Islamic terrorism against the United States. Yet, the western Left has allied itself with Islamic fascists to reverse the equation so that terrorism is now to be seen as emanating from the United States toward an Islamic world. It has been no mean feat to swap cause and effect, but the socialist regimes of Europe in concert with the American left have managed quite nicely to do just this.
For those who claim that the source of Islamic animus toward the United States began only with American incursions into Afghanistan and Iraq, one need only look at the decades preceding 9-11. In Why the Left Hates America, Daniel Flynn punches a hole through the veneer of political correctness that nurtures and justifies the virulent pro-Marxist philosophy that has since become endemic in nearly all of America’s colleges and universities. When college teachers carefully couch their pedagogy using phrases that denigrate traditional American virtues of patriotism and national pride, then it is no wonder that a new generation of malleable minds has been inculcated with a viciousness of pro-Marxist and anti-Semitic thought that would have been unthinkable in previous decades. Consider for example, the prompt to which this author responds:
“What we call an Age of Terror is seen by some as an Age of Righteousness. On the extreme
ends of the spectrum, justice seems to be the magical word to justify a policy of violence and
revenge, and eventually culture and civilization. Just as democracy is the end of a means to
many of us, jihad, to some, is the means to an end.”
The phrasing of this quote implies a subtext that includes a number of political and sociological givens: (a) There is no need to refute the charge that Islamic terror bombings are not in fact acts of terror. One accepts that acts of terror while committed under the banner of jihad are righteous. A logical extrapolation is that any act of terror—whether nuclear or biohazard—would be equally righteous. (b) It is ironic—although perhaps not to those who already ascribe to the sentiments of this quote—that the alleged American policy of violence and revenge that might lead to the detriment of Islamic culture could apply equally well to the reverse. And then there is (c). The deliberately vague use of pronouns “many” and “some” well indicates the unspoken but clear arenas of authorial sympathy.
In 1993, when the first World Trade Center bombing occurred, there was an unfortunate tendency for many Americans to play the political ostrich and view the bombing less as an act of overt war and more as one of criminality. Both republicans and democrats placed the bombing in the context of law enforcement rather than as one that called for military response against an aggressor nation. The problem then—as now—was that for the first time in American history, America was attacked by forces grounded in ideology rather than in easily identified nation states. The rising sun on the wings of the Zeroes over Pearl Harbor had no modern equivalent tattooed on the foreheads of the nineteen suicide terrorists crashing into the Twin Towers. America’s dilemma of how to respond was clearly anticipated by the architects of Islamofascism. These turbaned thugs well knew that any attack on any Islamic country would be trumpeted by Al-Jazeera as an attack on the ideology of Islam, not as one on the host country that spawned that attack. Osama Bin Laden and his minions were correct in their belief that George Bush would find little popular support for forays into Islamic regimes. They were fatally incorrect, however, in their notion that their future as masters of a pan-world caliphate was based on what they saw as the inevitable triumph of demographics.
In recent bestsellers such as America Alone by Mark Steyn, While Europe Slept by Bruce Bawer, State of Emergency by Patrick Buchanan, Menace in Europe by Claire Berlinsky, and The West’s Last Chance by Tony Blankley, one notes the decline in the birth rate of European women has fallen far below the replacement rate needed to maintain current population levels while the birth rate for immigrant Moslem families has increased to the point that the pundits on Al-Jazeera can now openly brag about conquering a Europe that they believe is rightfully and historically theirs without the need to fire a single shot. History and demographics they conclude is on their side. What is more likely, however, to occur than merely connecting the dots on a population graph is to consider what caused the decline of western babies in the first place. This reduction is western births began after the end of the First World War when a demoralized western population saw the horrors of a self-inflicted internecine genocide reduce their need to believe in the vitality of a philosophy and a religion that had buttressed Europe through nearly two thousand years of Christian civilization that was bent but not snapped by the grim gaspings of trench warfare. The Second World War merely accelerated the reduction of a faith-based life to be replaced by a secular-based one that demanded gratification of the now over the postponement of that gratification for the benefit of the next generation. The wave of recent Moslem immigrants was the mirror image of the residents of the host country. In came increasing numbers of those gripped by a theology that demands strictly punitive protocols. Out and down went a population that refuses to give up its corrosive dependency on a welfare state that requires a growing base of tax payers who are willing to pay for the retirement years of a senescent European mentality that sees these immigrants only as commodities who in turn see Europeans merely as fumbling, stumbling, and morally bumbling weaklings that history seems ready to consign to the same trash heap that gobbled up the enervated Romans who allowed a barbaric but bustling race of Teutons to reside on Roman soil for much the same purpose. Yet, what happened to the Huns and Goths was that they became corrupted by the sensuality of a culture that readily promised the seventy two virgins right here on earth. There is no reason to think that the human race has over the centuries improved its moral fiber to the extant that the temptation of the flesh can be overridden by the asceticism of the soul.
And where does America fit in as Europe goes down the demographic drain? One need look no further than Arundhati Roy, Howard Zinn, and Noam Chomsky, all of whom are absolutely typical of the leftist mindset that sees America both as the Bad Guy of the Western World and the source of all of the world’s assorted ills. In “The Algebra of Infinite Justice,” Roy sees justice mostly as a punitive force to be exerted against what she deems a Zionist imperialist illegitimate non-state of Israel. In A People’s History of the United States, Howard Zinn views American history through the lens of a failed Marxist dogma and would rather call Marx a capitalist than to say even one kind word about the Founding Fathers. In Hegemony and Survival, Noam Chomsky sees George Bush as the most infamous terrorist of all time. The common link among them is their collective wish to denude America of its financial, its military, and its spiritual might and turn America into a clone of France, Germany, the Netherlands, and England, all of whom, coincidentally enough, are currently losing the demographic war of survival.
The recent democratic victories over the republicans in the House and Senate elections would seem to bode ill for those who seek to resist an Islamic conflagration. But any celebration of the next coming of the pandemic caliphate would be premature. George Bush still has two more years to convince an American people that the danger of mass cultural implosion of traditional American values is here and will not go away. If the political right maintains the White House in the next election, then the fate of the long defunct Roman Empire may yet be averted.