“America Alone” – Mark Steyn on H&C (VIDEO)

October 16, 2006 H&C, Islamofascists, North Korea, Telling It Like it Is, Terrorism, Video Comments

The EVER brilliant Mark Steyn was on Hannity & Colmes tonight; in fact, he’s been all over the radio dial and TV remote lately promoting his new book that came out today, “America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It.” From everything I’ve heard him say about the book today, as well as the reviews, I’m going to go buy it tomorrow.

According to Amazon.com, the inside flap reads:

Itâ€™s the end of the world as we know itâ€¦

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”â€”while Talibanic enforcers cruise Greenwich Village burning books and barber shops, the Supreme Court decides sharia law doesnâ€™t 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 canâ€™t happen, you havenâ€™t been paying attention, as the hilarious, provocative, and brilliant Mark Steynâ€”the most popular conservative columnist in the English-speaking worldâ€”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 Westâ€”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 oblivionâ€”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 aloneâ€”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 worldâ€™s 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 Americaâ€™s influence around the worldâ€”for our own sake as well as theirs.

Mark Steynâ€™s America Alone is laugh-out-loud funnyâ€”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.

This is going to be a must-read for all humanity. Mark Steyn is one of the most brilliant minds of our time, and we should all pay heed to what he says.

Watch Steyn on H&C here.