JewishWorldReview: Western Liberalism proving to be the only idea left standing -by Victor Davis Hanson

jewishworldreview.comWestern Liberalism proving to be the only idea left standing -by Victor Davis Hanson

"Oil, terror, anti-Semitism and hating America gave the fundamentalists some resonance, but there were never any ideas. The Islamicists offered nothing to galvanize the Arab masses other than nihilism. That doctrine feeds or employs no one. Instead, we witness the creepy threats and the pyrotechnics of a lunatic ideology going the way of bushido and the kamikazes. Why all these upheavals? Global communications now reveal hourly to people abroad how much better life is in Europe than in the Middle East and Asia — and how in America, Australia and Britain the standard of living is even better than in most of Europe".