I recently read one of John Birmingham's latest novels,
Without Warning. It was a very good book, but you definitely have to suspend your disbelief to accept the premise: a magical force field appears out of nowhere over most of North America which incinerates all living things within its area. The United States, as well as Canada, and Mexico, are gone in an instant. The only exceptions are the area around Seattle, Hawaii, and Alaska, and our military forces, which are a week away from invading Iraq in 2003. The rest of the world has to figure out what to do with America gone.
In one of the plot lines of the novel, Birmingham explains a movement inside the French government which wants to work with the Muslim Arabs and help them to take over France as well as the rest of Europe, but covertly instead of overtly. In the wake of America's disappearance, these forces see their chance to overtly take over their country in the ensuing chaos. Britain, meanwhile, engages in a mass "ethnic cleansing" program of kicking all the Muslims out of their country.
Which brings me to this story from last week:
Gordon Brown in new storm over freed Lockerbie bomberSo the Brits decide to free one of the Lockerbie bombers as a gesture of goodwill, given that he's near death to some illness. And Brown goes to deal with Gaddafi about the whole thing, where Gaddafi agrees to not make a big deal out of it. Of course, the murderous bastard is welcomed home with much fanfare, and the British are made to look like a bunch of cowardly timid fools. Here they have a convicted criminal responsible for the deaths of hundreds of people and they free him for "goodwill"?
Double You Tee Eff
My thinking is, maybe Mr. Birmingham isn't too far off with the premise in his novel that there is a European government that wants to openly appease and accomodate the global Jihad, even to the point of handing over the keys to the kingdom. There have been other articles over the last few years where Prince Charles has indicated his acceptance of Arab ways and customs. Heck, his ex-wife was fixing to marry an Arab when they were killed in that car accident!
I suggest a new nickname:
Tea-Drinking Surrender Monkeys
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