Wednesday, 5 November 2014

Bruce Bawer: For the Destruction of European Ethnic Identity: Part III

Pro-war in the Middle East

Bawer thinks America is the guiding light for the world, the bringer of liberty, and the "savior and protector" of Europe.1 To him, freedom through war is a central character trait of America throughout its history, something that Europe is lacking and would benefit from emulating. He thinks that Western military force will bring freedom and democracy to Muslim countries and thus, when Muslim immigrants come to the West, they will integrate easily. In other words, crushing Islamist tyranny and spreading liberal democracy by military intervention in the Middle East will neutralise the Islamist threat both at home and abroad.

Bawer is convinced that the War on Terror is successful, worthy, andjustifiable as it makes free the "unfree" Islamic world. In fact, he believes that both the war in Iraq (2003) and the war in Afghanistan (2001- ) "were predicated on the assumption that Islam is compatible with democracy." This ignorance is continued when Bawer arrogantly writes of American moral superiority:

Americans...really do believe in fighting for liberty, even the liberty of strangers in faraway places with names they can't spell and languages they can't speak a word of and cultures they find ridiculous. In their view, to defend other people's freedom is to defend their own.2

Bawer is scathing of the overall European rejection of American and Israeli foreign policies and military intervention in the Muslim Middle East. While he appeals to Europe to help "America's global supremacy" in the