To the victor go the spoils

http://www.victorhanson.com/articles/ibrahim120306.html

Every person who cares about the political state of the western world, and whether it has decayed past the state of resurrection, needs to read this article. Victor Davis Hanson describes the towering confidence of the islamic world in its own rightness thereby casting our own mouse-like trembling and hesitancy in the face of any threat or challenge into stark relief. Sitting as we do on a mountain of wealth and military power, instead of behaving as men have done in all times heretofore that "might makes right", we instead fall over ourselves to demean ourselves before those we could crush without even getting up a decent sweat.

I think that a campaign to demand the return of the Hagia Sophia, and the replacement of the Al Aqsa mosque by a Jewish Synagogue/Temple would be a good place to start bringing some reality to the current situation. Perhaps we should think about a campaign to convert the populations of Afghanistan and Iraq to Christianity too, just to make things interesting. We have the whip hand. By itself, the US could crush any nation on earth like a grape. Add to it the UK, with its excellent (especially the Army) if smaller forces, and thats a combo nobody will screw with.

A study of the period at the end of the Ottoman empire will show you how far the Arabs have got with virtually no power, no industry, no creativity and no civilisation- just the power of the lie. Its time to tame the lie, and put it in its place.