Mark Steyn: The End of Europe - America Alone (2 of 5)

Book Description:
In this, his first major book, Mark Steyn--probably the most widely read, and wittiest, columnist in the English-speaking world--takes on the great poison of the twenty-first century: the anti-Americanism that fuels both Old Europe and radical Islam. America, Steyn argues, will have to stand alone. The world will be divided between America and the rest; and for our sake America had better win.

From the Inside Flap:
Its the end of the world as we know it
Someday soon, you might wake up to the call to prayer from a muezzin. Europeans already are.

And liberals will still tell you that "diversity is our strength"—while Talibanic enforcers cruise Greenwich Village burning books and barber shops, the Supreme Court decides sharia law doesnt violate the "separation of church and state," and the Hollywood Left decides to give up on gay rights in favor of the much safer charms of polygamy.

If you think this cant happen, you havent been paying attention, as the hilarious, provocative, and brilliant Mark Steyn—the most popular conservative columnist in the English-speaking world—shows to devastating effect in this, his first and eagerly awaited new book on American and global politics.

The future, as Steyn shows, belongs to the fecund and the confident. And the Islamists are both, while the West—wedded to a multiculturalism that undercuts its own confidence, a welfare state that nudges it toward sloth and self-indulgence, and a childlessness that consigns it to oblivion—is looking ever more like the ruins of a civilization.

Europe, laments Steyn, is almost certainly a goner. The future, if the West has one, belongs to America alone—with maybe its cousins in brave Australia. But America can survive, prosper, and defend its freedom only if it continues to believe in itself, in the sturdier virtues of self-reliance (not government), in the centrality of family, and in the conviction that our country really is the worlds last best hope.

Steyn argues that, contra the liberal cultural relativists, America should proclaim the obvious: we do have a better government, religion, and culture than our enemies, and we should spread Americas influence around the world—for our own sake as well as theirs.

Mark Steyns America Alone is laugh-out-loud funny—but it will also change the way you look at the world. It is sure to be the most talked-about book of the year.

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[pmoyer50]

@hunner1210 : You made me respect France all the more.

[pmoyer50]

@jimdivax : The golden age of islam is long gone and will never return. Americans would never allow islam to rule them. They would make the islamic insurgents look like a sorry troop of Girl Scouts.

[MzBUZZKILINGTON]

@hunner1210 Umm the U.K allows sharia law. You can't even burn a Quran without getting arrested their either.

[kanistor22]

I love this guy!

[CircleBastiat]

Every major power "has" waned, i.e. that is history. And the purpose of history is to analyze the human experience and discover what happened. This perpetual theme is not deterministic and therefore we are not necessarily doomed to this fate. When we analyze each of these civilizations we discover that their ends came about from the excesses of government. We are indeed on the precipice, but we aren't "fated" to this end, it's still avoidable and Americans are adaptive.

[jimdivax]

China will overtake America as the dominant cultural force in the World. End of. Because every major cultural power wanes...that's just history....Egypt. Ancient Greece. Rome. Conquistado Spain. Louis 14's France. 19th century United Kingdom....Get over it everybody.

[oiyabastard]

@hunner1210  ever wonder why?

[hunner1210]

Haha after hearing 5 seconds I had to turn it off, this guy has NO idea what he is talking about. Muslims in France???? That's funny because pretty much all of Europe (France included) just passed a burka-ban against the muslims! And Sarkozy, is the most anti-muslim person on the planet. (But I actually dont think that's a good thing)

[marieje09]

Of course Mark Steyn is right but their are few of the educated liberalized nutters who realize these facts today...few and yet the use of common sense and real brains is not lost on us all. The watching majorities are more than waking up, they have found a voice in the internet and this will translate into not only the cyber world but the real one because the cyber world is dissemenating the liberalist nutters safety zones! Come on world wake up, Islam is on its last great crusade for Humanity!