That Flapping Sound You Hear (Attacks Multiculturalism)

The May 9 Washington Times reported that the six foreign-born Muslims accused of planning a shooting attack on the U.S. military base (Ft. Dix, New Jersey) included four ethnic Albanians, and U.S. officials say their arrests highlight how Islamic groups are using the Balkans region to help in recruiting and financing terrorism.

That flapping sound you hear is chickens coming home to roost. In the 1990s, the United States intervened militarily in the Balkans to create two new Islamic states, Bosnia and Kosovo. Both of those states -- states by courtesy, since state institutions are weak in both -- are now happy homes for Fourth Generation Islamic forces.

What led America to the strategic imbecility of replacing the Ottoman Empire as the protector of Balkan Moslems? Ideology, that worst of poisons loosed by the French Revolution. The specific ideology in question calls itself "multiculturalism," though in fact it is the cultural Marxism of the Frankfurt School. Officially, it proclaims that all cultures are equal, peaceful, happy, something to "celebrate," even if on the ground they resemble a dumpster too long unemptied. Unofficially, multiculturalism works tirelessly for the destruction of Western, Christian culture, which it seeks to wipe off the earth and out of history. Since Islam has the same objective, the two work in alliance, despite the fact that they are philosophical opposites.

Lest anyone think that multiculturalism in the Balkans was purely a product of the Clinton administration, the Bush administration has picked up exactly where Clinton's crowd left off. At present, the U.S. is working to ram independence for Kosovo through the U.N., stripping Christian Serbia, an American ally in both World Wars, of its ancestral homeland. From a policy standpoint, such an action is absurd, as it creates an irredenta that guarantees another Balkan war. Morally, it is obscene, both as an act of Western suicide and as a gift to the same culture that is killing American troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. Only ideologically does it make sense, assuming one is a multiculturalist. Among ideologues, fantasies trump reality every time.

I have touched on this point in earlier columns, but here I want to state it as plainly as I can: in a Fourth Generation world, multiculturalism is the death of states. We have two recent examples of this fact, the former Soviet Union and the former Yugoslavia. One of the characteristics of Fourth Generation war is that cultural loyalties supercede state loyalties. Ipso facto, states that tolerate, or worse, encourage multiple cultural loyalties -- as multiculturalism commands -- become battlegrounds. Yes, there can be exceptions, as Switzerland illustrates. But the primary loyalty and level of government in Switzerland is the canton, not the federal state, and most cantons are monocultural. Switzerland's current very loose confederation is itself the product of a 19th century multicultural civil war.

It follows that the single most important aspect of national defense in the 21st century is immigration policy. States that want to survive will not admit immigrants from other cultures, and will give those who have already arrived a choice between adopting the state's existing culture or leaving. The alternative, again, is war, a very nasty sort of war. Europe has already heard the opening guns.

Overseas, the return to a world of cultures in violent conflict means cultural solidarity on the one hand -- Serbia should be an ally, Moslem Albania not -- and on the other hand a reluctance to intervene in regions dominated by other cultures. Iraq and Afghanistan both underline that point; the Western expeditionary forces sent to both places have been defeated and, sooner or later, will be forced to withdraw.

Like all ideologies, multiculturalism attempts to deal with these inconvenient facts by forbidding their mention. It is "politically incorrect" to talk about them, political correctness being another alias of cultural Marxism. In America, daring to say that multiculturalism is death gets you kicked out of the Establishment. In Europe, it can get you arrested. If that reminds you of another Marxism, it should.

U.S.-EU resolution on Kosovo ready

24 May 2007 | 09:35 -> 14:52 | Source: B92, Tanjug

NEW YORK, VIENNA, BRUSSELS, WASHINGTON -- The United States will officially submit its draft Kosovo resolution to the UN Security Council by the end of the week.

Tanjug news agency has learnt from its sources in the UN that the draft resolution sponsored by the U.S. and EU member states does not explicitly mention the notion of independence, but it suggests the nullification of all previously adopted resolutions regarding Kosovo, which will make room for the implementation of Ahtisaari’s plan of supervised independence for the province.

Russian President Vladimir Putin reiterated Wednesday in Vienna he was against any imposed solution for Kosovo, stressing that the fundamental principles of the international law, first of all on the territorial integrity principle, had to be respected

“The principles of international law can be changed, if someone wishes so, but still they must meet the interests of both sides in the Serbian province of Kosovo,” Putin said at a joint press conference with Austrian President Heinz Fischer.

Putin also said that the future status of Kosovo had to be settled by means of a direct agreement between Belgrade and Priština in line with the UN resolution 1244 which said that that Kosovo is an integral part of Serbia.

U.S. President George Bush and NAO secretary-general Jaap de Hoop Scheffer voiced support for a UN resolution based on UN Special Kosovo Envoy Martti Ahtisaari’s plan.

However, if that resolution was not adopted, KFOR troops would remain in Kosovo on the basis of UN resolution 1244, NATO spokesperson James Appathurai said in Brussels.

He added that NATO nevertheless expected to see the adoption of the resolution in the UN Security Council, but was prepared for all options.

Russian diplomat: Differences remain

“UN Security Council member states still show no signs of finding common ground over Kosovo,” a Russian UN delegation member told ITAR-Tass Wednesday.

He recalled that members of a Kosovo contact group, including Russia, Britain, Germany, Italy, the U.S., and France, had met in New York Tuesday.

“We had another round of discussions on a draft resolution the U.S. and European Union delegations circulated earlier this month,” the diplomat said.

“The rift is not getting any smaller, since all the provisions the Russian delegation deems problematic are still in the document,” he said.

“Russia continues believing that the U.S.-sponsored draft doesn’t represent an acceptable basis for UN Security Council’s decisions on Kosovo,” the Russian diplomat said.

He did not rule out that the Security Council may discuss Kosovo some time next week.

U.S.: Too early to discuss unilateral moves

U.S. State Department spokesperson Tom Kasey said it was too early to discuss the possibility of unilateral recognition of Kosovo’s independence.

“Our position remains unchanged. We support UN special Kosovo envoy Ahtisaari’s plan as we are using it as a basis for the settlement process to move forward and finally end after a certain period of time,” Casey said at a regular press briefing in the U.S. Department of State.

He added that the UN Security Council was at the moment discussing the issue of Kosovo, as Washington believed it was possible to reach a solution within that body.

“Therefore I think it is too early to talk about taking any unilateral steps,” he concluded his statement regarding Kosovo.

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