Malzberg | Patrick J. Buchanan discusses the terror attacks in Paris and Obama’s response. Video. The Steve Malzberg Show. NewsmaxTV, November 18, 2015. YouTube.
Buchanan:
Nations have a right to preserve their own unique identity.
In
denouncing Republicans as “scared of widows and orphans,” and castigating those
who prefer Christian refugees to Muslims coming to America, Barack Obama has
come off as petulant and unpresidential.
Clearly,
he is upset. And with good reason.
He
grossly, transparently underestimated the ability of ISIS, the “JV” team, to
strike outside the caliphate into the heart of the West, and has egg all over
his face. More critically, the liberal world order he has been preaching and
predicting is receding before our eyes.
Suddenly,
his rhetoric is discordantly out of touch with reality. And, for his time on
the global stage, the phrase “failed president” comes to mind.
What
happened in Paris, said President Obama, “was an attack on all of humanity and
the universal values that we share.”
And
just what might those “universal values” be?
At a
soccer game between Turkey and Greece in Istanbul, Turks booed during the moment
of silence for the Paris dead and chanted “Allahu Akbar.” Among 1.6 billion
Muslims, hundreds of millions do not share our values regarding women’s rights,
abortion, homosexuality, free speech, or the equality of all religious faiths.
Set
aside the fanatics of ISIS. Does Saudi Arabia share Obama’s views and values
regarding sexual freedom and the equality of Christianity, Judaism and Islam?
Is anything like the First Amendment operative across the Sunni or Shiite
world, or in China?
In
their belief in the innate superiority of their Islamic faith and the culture
and civilization it created, Muslims have more in common with our confident
Christian ancestors who conquered them than with gauzy global egalitarians like
Barack Obama.
“Liberte,
egalite, fraternite” the values of secular France, are no more shared by the
Islamic world than is France’s affection for Charlie Hebdo.
Across
both Europe and the United States, the lurch away from liberalism, on
immigration, borders and security, fairly astonishes.
But
again, understandably so.
Many of
the Muslim immigrants in Britain, France and Germany have never assimilated.
Within these countries are huge enclaves of the alienated and their militant
offspring.
Consider
the Belgium capital of Brussels. Belgium’s home affairs minister Jan Jambon
said his government does not “have control of the situation in Molenbeek.”
Brice
De Ruyver, a security adviser to a former Belgian prime minister says, “We
don’t officially have no-go zones in Brussels, but in reality, there are, and
they are in Molenbeek.”
According
to The Wall Street Journal, after the
Paris attacks, “French security forces … conducted hundreds of antiterror raids
and placed more than 100 suspects under arrest. … France has some 11,500 names
on government watch lists.”
How
many of those 11,500 are of Arab descent or the Muslim faith?
The
nations of the EU are beginning to look again at their borders, and who is
crossing them, who is coming in, and who is already there.
And the
world is reawakening to truths long suppressed. Race and religion matter. To
some they are life-and-death matters. Not all creeds, cultures and tribes are
equally or easily assimilated into a Western nation. And First World nations
have a right to preserve their own unique identity and character.
When
Obama says that to prefer Christian to Muslim refugees is “un-American,” he is
saying that all the U.S. immigration laws enacted before 1965 were un-American.
And, so, too, were presidents like Calvin Coolidge who signed laws that
virtually restricted immigration to Europeans.
Barack
Obama may be our president, but who is this man of the left to dictate to us
what is “un-American”?
Were
presidents Harry Truman and Woodrow Wilson, who called ours a “Christian
nation,” un-American? Did the Supreme Court uphold our “universal values” with Roe v. Wade in 1973 and the Obergefell
decision on same-sex marriage last June?
The
race issue, too, has returned to divide us.
Half a
century after Selma bridge, we have “Black Lives Matter!” on college campuses
claiming that universities like Missouri, Princeton, Yale and Dartmouth are
riddled with institutional racism.
Attention
must be paid, and reparations made, by white America. And a new generation of
academic appeasers advances to grovel and ask how the university might make
amends.
In
Europe, tribalism and nationalism are on the march. Peoples and nations wish to
preserve who they are. Some have begun to establish checkpoints and ignore the
Schengen Agreement mandating open borders. Eastern Europeans have had all the
diversity they can stand.
With
Syrian passports missing, with ISIS besieged in its Syria-Iraq laager and
urging suicide attacks in New York and Washington, we may be witness to more
terrorist massacres and murders in the States.
The
time may be at hand for a moratorium on all immigration, and a rewriting of the
immigration laws to reflect the views and values of Middle Americans, rather
than those of a morally arrogant multicultural elite.
Obamaworld
is gone. We live again in an us-versus-them country in an us-versus-them world.
And we shall likely never know another.
