Posted by
KsReaganite on Saturday, August 26, 2006 5:46:23 PM
One finds it hardly surprising that the most recent spate of bombings and terror attacks have targeted Israel and India....two widely different countries with amazingly deep common faith in representative democracy. Perhaps it is in our interest, long term visionary interest, to forge a pact of freedom-a common NATO like alliance-with those two nations and others like them. Let us face it, most of the 'old' democracies in Europe are weak and unsure of themselves and take their democratic institutions for granted. It is the likes of Israel, India, Turkey, Botswana, and Lithuania that take the business of democracy seriously enough to defend it vigorously. A sad but remarkable analogy to the state of the Christian faith in the world: except the United States, the rest of the Western world is largely indifferent to Chrsitianity while the most robust examples of shining faith are found amongst Asians and Africans. Will we be looking for the strongest pillars of Western Civilization in Asia and Africa one day? Someone from New York City, the abortion capital of the United States, has hardly any right to preach Judeao-Christian values to a Nigerian Catholic after all. Just wondering.