Tuesday, November 15, 2005
Remembrance Day: Do we really remember ?
Saving Western Civilization.
by Ferdinand III
Three times in the past century the Anglo-Saxons saved Western Civilization. Extreme nationalism, fascism, utopianism and the destructive ideologies of Marxian dialectics, Romanticism, and Orientalism threatened to overpower the modern, moral and wealthy ideals of the Anglo-Saxon world. In the First World War the French, Italian and for a time the Russians fought valiantly against pre-planned and expansive German militarism – a precursor to Hitler’s fascism. In the Second World War the Soviets broke the back of the German army, and combined with Anglo-Saxon forces in the West erased the vestiges of fanatical Hitlerism. Reagan and the Americans with little help from former allies, forced the collapse of the corrupt fascism of the Soviet empire thereby ensuring that civilization would march forward – until it was attacked by Islam.
A new world order has indeed emerged from the wreckage of the Cold War. In a time of remembrance it might do society some good to give thanks to the powers that have protected liberty. US, Canadian, British, Australian, and New Zealand forces fought during the Two World Wars, far from home, against great odds, against fascism embodied in Prussian militarism, Hitlerism, Mussolinism, and Japanese expansionism. The US lost 400.000 in World War II, and the Canadians 40.000 – lives lost far from home, not in direct defense of the ‘mother country’, but on beaches, in forests, and on the seas, hills and in the skies of a world wide conflagration. Sadly for Eastern Europe and large parts of Asia, one form of fascism was replaced by another.
The First World War in which the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918 is the time to remember the Great War and its sacrifices, was probably one of the greatest watershed events in human history. The scale of the dead and destruction would be unimaginable to the modern mind raised to expect entitlements, quick success and immediate gratification. Approximately 8 million men were killed, and 21 million were wounded. Germany lost 1.6 million soldiers, France 1.4 million, Russia 1.6 million, Britain close to 1 million, and the US and Canada both about 60.000. These numbers must be put into perspective. During the course of World War One, 11% of France's entire population, 8% of Great Britain's and 9% of Germany's pre-war population, were killed or wounded. Only the bubonic plague and the 17th wars of religion claimed more European lives as a percentage of the population.
Today regardless of liberal posturing and arrogant denials, the world is faced yet again with another form of pagan fascism – in the guise of militant Islam. Fighting for freedom is an unending task. The history of mankind has been largely a history of oppression, dictatorship and extermination. The current Anglo-Saxon inspired period of freedom and enlightenment is the exception not the rule. Many in our world are unwilling to defend our freedoms and our modern moral civilization. This is to cast away into the trash bin of history, the millions of men and women who sacrificed themselves to achieve freedom. Today’s Islamic threat is different – but real and potent. Islam would like nothing better than to annihilate modernity. Iranian foreign policy after all explicitly states that the destruction of the Anglo-Saxon powers must predate the eradication of Israel. Such a policy has numerous adherents throughout the Islamic world.
We need to ignore the mass media, the sniveling Hollywood elite and liberal-socialist reductionists who blame America and the UK first for all the world’s ills. These people are ignorant, immoral and repugnant. They insult those who have given their lives, oftentimes far from home, to guarantee our freedoms. On remembrance day remember that civilization can only be defended by strength,, purpose and determination.