COEXIST

 

Do you remember those annoying COEXIST bumper stickers? Sure you do, along with their vapid dropped-on-head-as-infant assumption, if only we could all agree to get along then there'd be world peace. Behold 2000 years of Western thought devolve to the level of a Miss World contest. And the problem with this is that it's utterly wrong. 

There are, unfortunately, bad actors running around; Jihad head-chopping third world savages can't coexist with civilized people. Kali worshipping Thugs can't coexist with people who believe murder sacrifice to a demon is a bad thing. Suttee widow burning can't ride alongside Christian people who value life, and neither can a Moloch worshipping culture of death.

You get the point, COEXIST has great rainbow pony potential and's guaranteed popular with every 16 year old girl or Bristol U undergrad, but it's rubbish. All religions, cultures and people aren't the same, they're often diametrically opposed. So when you throw them together what happens?

Belfast wakes up to an eye-gouging beheader Sudanese savage. Austin Metcalf gets stabbed in the heart at a sports event in Dallas. 13% of our US population commits what, 50 or 60% of violent crime, maybe more. Lee Rigby, remember him?, gets beheaded/macheted in greater London and on.

Point being, diversity is not our strength, unity is, unity around what's good, right and true. COEXIST doesn't give us that, but the Faith which built Europe and it's colonies, the Anglosphere, does. The West has effectively rejected that since at least 1945 and look where it's got us. Nowhere good and it'll surely get worse. Time to correct that.

Your Old Pal,

LSP

War Drums

 

You no sooner take a putative day off than two nuclear powers, Pakistan and India are at it, and then some. Maybe you've followed the story, which goes something like this. Pakistani Moslems went Jihad on Indian, Hindu, tourists in Kashmir. They killed quite a few, in a typical act of Moslem butchery.

India didn't like this and started bulldozing mosques, good call, take note Texas, and deporting Pakistanis. Sorry, Moslems, you've got to go. Pakistan didn't like this and has apparently  closed its airspace to India. Not to be outdone, India's closed the Indus dam to Pakistan, cutting off the radical Moslem country's water. Here endeth a 1960s treaty.

Pakistan, understandably annoyed by this, has called India's Indus gambit an "act of war." In fairness, it probably is. That in mind, who would win the war? India is far larger and has an equivalently larger deployable force. Both countries have, for some reason, nuclear weapons. Result?

Right on the very brink. Move over, Ukraine, you're yesterday's money-laundering scheme, here's a new thing. Hopefully calm heads will prevail. But here's a thought, why should a single American life be lost to defend the sovereignty of either of these two countries.

You can see why we ruled them. Skinner v. Probyn, what? Guinea on the monkey India takes it, and twice as fast.

Your Friend,

LSP