A Half Million Pro-Hamas Muslims Resettled in America? Why Not? What Are We, Isolationists …?

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by John Zmirak

For more than 20 years I have been warning that neoconservative interventionists and hawks were going to wreck our country, via their twofold strategy of “invade the world, invite the world.” In other words, the U.S. meddles in countless foreign conflicts we don’t fully understand and cannot control, while leaving our borders porous and absorbing countless low-skill immigrants from cultures incompatible with our own, in need of massive public benefits we cannot afford.

All this to prove … that America is some kind of Marvel Universe superhero who can solve every problem on earth and absorb limitless shocks to its system without even flinching. A Superman in a universe where Kryptonite doesn’t exist.

A Golden Calf with Feet of Clay

Unless … just hear me out please … such an imaginary “America” is a golden calf with feet of clay, which our Founders never intended and which can no more endure than Napoleon’s empire in France or the Soviet empire in Russia. Which of course is sadly the case, as Donald Trump was rude enough to point out in 2016 — so rude that now he faces the prospect of prison.

At the height of President George W. Bush’s crusade to eliminate “terror” and democratize the Muslim world, back in January 2003, I played the dead rat in his punchbowl. I wrote a sober essay called “America the Abstraction” that predicted the outcome of such grandiose fantasies. Please brew a cup of coffee and go read it, remembering when it appeared: before the first U.S. soldier had set foot in Iraq, and before the genocide of Christians that our troops were ordered not to prevent.

In that essay, I pointed out that in order to win the Cold War, neoconservatives such as were running the Bush administration had abandoned the defense of tradition, religion, and America’s particular institutions and culture. Instead, they had stripped down “Americanism” into an ideology for export, a set of slogans and maxims every bit as bloodless, ahistorical, and secular as the Marxism we fought. The problem with such ideologies is that they poison the countries which try to live by them. Just ask Russians such as Alexander Solzhenitsyn.

Jeb! in a Dress Wants to Bring Gaza to Peoria

Now presidential candidate Nikki Haley is proving my point. For more on why Haley exemplifies more than any other GOP candidate what’s wrong with that party, read Gavin Sample here.

And Haley has stepped forward with the most insane response so far to the appalling terrorist attack on Israel by Hamas: Bring Hamas’ voters here, to the United States:

Because we can really never have enough cities like Dearborn, Michigan, can we?

Ron DeSantis rightly shot back at Haley’s bonkers idea, and she seems to be back-pedaling even now — aware that she has overplayed her hand in this game of national Russian Roulette.

What Motivates This Madness? Not Concern for Jews but Hubris

But we need to think long and hard about how such a crackpot idea could even flicker through the brain of a supposedly conservative Republican. I’m not going to indulge in some Alt-Right speculation about Haley “putting Israel first.” I never thought that pro-Israel sentiment was the central factor driving neoconservatives, anyway. It doesn’t explain why they blow smoke up Muslims’ caftans about Islam being really (despite all its scriptures and history) a “religion of peace.” Or why they insist on an open border with Mexico.

No, the heart and soul of neoconservatism isn’t Israel but Babel.

Drunk with hubris and Vainglory, they want to rebuild that Tower. They’re as cocksure as any Marxist ever was that we can construct the kingdom of heaven right here on earth. They just want to use slightly different materials and methods than Lenin or President Xi. They think that the Big Pharma, military contractors, and energy companies in their stock portfolios and donor lists will do the job, instead of the proletariat. But the Gospel, the natural law, and the American Constitution play no role at all, except as convenient fig leaves.

If You Won’t Build the Tower You’re a Bigot

And if you won’t go along with them, they start hurling every kind of accusation at you. You’re a “racist,” an “isolationist,” a “xenophobe.” You’re a selfish, blinkered appeaser of foreign dictators, and the blood of the innocents they spill is on your hands. You “hate” refugees, are “bigoted” against foreigners, and probably secretly blame Jews for inclement weather and cast doubt on the Holocaust. Those are the kind of accusations NeverTrumpers hurled at Donald Trump and his supporters.

The point wasn’t to persuade their fellow conservatives, but to terrorize them into silence — exactly the tactic employed by the radical left.

Some solid conservatives such as Pat Buchanan responded with courage, adopting the sensible slogan “America First.” That’s fine, but it isn’t enough. In fact, on a gut level it concedes the moral high ground to the maniacs. It sounds as if you’re advocating a cold-eyed, cynical, godless national selfishness — like those Americans in the 1930s and 40s who opposed taking Holocaust refugees. You seem to stand for egoism, pessimism, and callousness. At least, that’s how the ideologues will smear you, and it might stick.

How About National Humility and Wisdom?

Instead, I propose that we think and speak about “national humility” and “sober wisdom.” We admit that America might be exceptional, but it’s still just a country — not a world historical mechanism for transforming human existence. We’re not bulletproof, can’t leap tall buildings with a single bound, and don’t have X-ray vision.

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Every Palestinian needs to go to an Arab country that will treat terrorists like terrorists. Here, we’ll give them a debit card, a phone, a place to live and food while they plot to kill us.

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