"New Glory"

“America is at a strategic crossroads. As the world’s lone superpower, we face hostility, at home and abroad, from critics furious over our power and success—and their own failure. .Should we retreat from the struggle for human freedom to please Muslim extremists, decayed European powers and an irresponsible global media”?

Absolutely not, according to Ralph Peters, a visionary strategist with an unrivaled record of predicting future threats and author of a new book titled “New Glory”. This book is available at Lakeview Library. Not easy reading; however this book does about the best encapsulation of history leading up to our present times than any book I have read on why and how the Middle East arrived at its current poor, jealous, hateful of all; even themselves, depending on their religion or status and uneducated condition . They are almost totally dependent on oil and have next to no manufacturing

I quote some parts that might encourage you to read this book. “There was never an idyllic earlier world when all races were equal. When minorities crowd native worlds; old resentments ususally surface. Meaningful integration has come further in the U.S than in any other contemporary civilization. Minorities remain free to fail but they are free at least, to succeed. By contrast, Germany got rid of the Jews only to find itself host to millions of Muslims and Turks not interested in assimilation”.

Now look at the sorry situation the French government’s faces along with the worried French natives. He writes “France has been the cancer at the heart of Europe for centuries-if Germany is a clumsy monster, France is a poisonous snake. The French problem isn’t about the common men and women who suffer under foolish governments”.

A message is being sent to all countries that if those who no longer want to live in their native country and threaten to leave or do leave, there are plenty of new and different faces to take their place. These new and different faces often come with no intention to integrate or assimilate but to create their own enclaves, speak their own languages and create their own laws.

Mr. Peter writes, “Get rid of the notion that we can make our enemies love us. Within our own borders are some of the most resilient enemies to the well being of your health”. He continues “the stirring rhetoric of the left has been responsible for boundless human suffering. Hate is vastly more appealing than reason. You do not compromise with the devil. The side that succumbs to internal bickering loses while even temporary unity prevails. After the Koran, the Thousand Nights and a Night, is the greatest work Muslim culture and it is exuberating cruel. There has been no progress in much of the Islamic world in 1000 years”.

“The most insidious enemy we faced in Iraq was never Saddam. It was Al-Jazeera and the global media. The notion that everyone on this planet wants freedom more than anything – some want it more than others – seek more tolerable forms of oppression. Many just want revenge”.

Arabs and their fellow Muslims were histories great slavers and they despise black skin to this day. Also refer to “Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World” by David Brion Davis, the wealth that came from wrong.

“Rumsfeld failed to advance strategic thought to improve our military readiness or even employ our soldiers competitively. At least he knew of the cowardness of the Belgium’s, the blind German elephant and the viral French. There is an age old death dance between Germany and France which is beginning to look like a suicide pact.

“The history of Spain; who suffered a fateful line of rulers who loved God too much and humanity too little, made Spain the Saudi Arabia of its day corrupted by its own good fortune”.

“The most important alliance in the history of mankind is that between English speaking nations. Those of you who subscribe to the false exhortations of “bring our troops home now, probably need not read the rest of this book”.

Peters is extremely qualified to write this book. He does not excuse our failures but he does believe in our future if changes are made in the way our government governs. I hope our leadership has time to read or have Mr. Peters writings explained to them. If not, maybe the next administration. Most of know that positive changes are needed in our approach to worldwide communities and their governments. Most of this change will not be thru pacifisms.

I leave you with this thought “Take heed of enemies reconciled, and of meat twice cooked. (English Proverb)

Do I agree with everything he writes in the book? – no – but he is close. This book is must read especially for those who believe we should leave Iraq now. Or those who believe we got into this situation of Islamic and most Middle East hatred of us and their desire for revenge as all happening under George Bush. But I doubt those “chatterers” read me.