Thomas Sowell: Suicide Of The West

I would vote for Dr. Thomas Sowell for president if I could.  This man is brilliant, loves his country, and speaks in words that leave no room for ambiguity.  One knows where Sowell stands.

His piece written today is about something I had started writing a post about, but when I read his I knew I could do no better than to simply share his article here.

From Real Clear Politics:

SUICIDE OF THE WEST by Thomas Sowell

“Britain’s release of Abdel Baset al-Megrahi– the Libyan terrorist whose bomb blew up a plane over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988, killing 270 people– is galling enough in itself. But it is even more profoundly troubling as a sign of a larger mood that has been growing in the Western democracies in our time.

“In ways large and small, domestically and internationally, the West is surrendering on the installment plan to Islamic extremists.

“The late Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn put his finger on the problem when he said: ‘The timid civilized world has found nothing with which to oppose the onslaught of a sudden revival of barefaced barbarity, other than concessions and smiles.’

“He wrote this long before Barack Obama became President of the United States. But this administration epitomizes the ‘concessions and smiles’ approach to countries that are our implacable enemies.” Read the complete article here….

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