President DTMW: My Foreign Policy

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What would I do if I were President of the United States of America? It’s a question I often find myself considering, and so I thought I’d share the fruit of my imaginings with you here. These are my policy positions on six of the most important regional issues of our day.

Iran.

Iran is a theocratic state, but not a naturally theocratic society. The regime must be therefore be emphasised as the enemy in contradistinction to the people. We must carry out limited air-strikes against all known nuclear facilities and use global and social media to explain ourselves to the Iranian population. There is no valid reason for Iran to enrich uranium beyond the level required for a peaceful, civil energy program, except for the clandestine manufacture of nuclear arms. Since the regime in Iran is committedly anti-Semitic, anti-Zionist and anti-Western, we are acting in legitimate self-defence by carrying out such attacks.

As to the long term, we should encourage dissident forces within Iran and demand the nation’s elite to hold free and fair elections. I don’t believe an invasion of Iran would solve any problems.

Russia/Eastern Europe

Being a European, Christian and developed country, Russia should rightly be a friend of the West and not its enemy. However, the way Russia and NATO have developed makes the status quo extremely difficult to reverse. Putin is nakedly aggressive towards many former Soviet States (esp. Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania and Georgia) and would appear to imagine with pleasure the recreation of the former Russian empire. NATO must face this down with confidence and willpower. Troop deployments and missile shield development in Eastern Europe should go ahead and Russian concerns should be ignored.

Outside of Europe, the West should follow the Russian lead when that lead is going in the right direction, the intervention in Syria being a case in point. Economically, we should seek greater integration and trade with Russia. And culturally, we must emphasise our similarities and downplay our differences. Both Russia and Europe will face Islamic insurgencies in the future. When that time arrives, it is obviously preferable that we cooperate rather than present a divided defence.  

The Arab World

As regards the Arab world, our relationships with authoritarian but pro-Western regimes like Egypt and Jordan must be maintained at all costs. No more should we recklessly push for wholesale democratisation in this region. As Iraq and Syria have shown, extremism must first be combatted and extinguished before democracy can truly flourish. In Algeria, Egypt and Jordan, state forces have fought very long and very bloody campaigns against violent Islam. They must be provided with all the military means to continue this struggle until victory. If they fail, we will be drawn in ourselves. Let’s strive to avoid this.

China

Current US policy towards China is roughly correct, I would say. As a guiding objective, it is most important that China remain integrated within the world economy. This is for both financial and strategic reasons. A China that is dependent on the Western market for income is a China less likely to attack Japan or Taiwan. Should that strategy fail, the current US deployment in the region, coupled with the might of the Japanese, Taiwanese and South Korean militaries will surely be enough to repel any aggression forthcoming.

Africa

The Chinese empire being constructed in Africa has proven undeniably popular with the native populations. Beijing’s unique style of ‘hands-off’/long-distance colonialism extracts the continent’s economic resources whilst maintaining an illusion of African autonomy. The West could learn a great deal from this and build much stronger relationships with African countries. On matters like immigration, future demographics, aid, disease-control, solar energy, oil and minerals, a partnership with Africa is essential. It has been neglected for too long.

Israel

We can help Israel most by offering our support in future IDF campaigns. The situation with Hamas and Hezbollah is highly ambiguous and may sometime re-ignite into conflict. If that happens, instead of offering platitudinous sympathies with the enemy, we should remember who we are, who we identify with and what we would do in the same scenario. It stands to reason that we will also continue to trade military technologies with Israel.

D, LDN.

Never Forget Armenia.

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I write this post in part to heartily recommend a book ‘The Burning Tigris’ by the scholar Peter Balakian, which has so gloomed my imagination for the past week. Its subject-matter must be reflected on if we are to stand any chance of understanding our current predicament.

Though the numbers continue to be debated – both dispassionately and for crude political reasons – few can deny that the Armenian people were subjected to a nightmare by the Ottoman Empire in the first decades of the Twentieth Century, or that this massacre or genocide has things to tell us about the European future if we fail to uphold our geo-cultural integrity.

Whether 300,000 or 1.5 million, the Armenian population dropped sharply in numbers as the Ottoman Empire entered its final collapse. The Young Turk barbarians, seeking to carve out a single homogenous Turkic state out of a multi-cultural empire, felt they had no choice but to remove the elements most hostile to their design. Naturally, this meant those who did not wish to be subsumed by an Islamic majority. Naturally this meant the Armenians.

An ancient people, and a very important one at that, the Armenians were among the first to adopt Christianity as their national religion, and some argue the faith’s later spread would have been greatly retarded had they not converted when they did. Some of the oldest and most ornate churches stand in Armenia and the Christian faith has dominated its affairs for over 1500 years. To the grinning lust of Jihadi eyes, this made them a symbolic target as well as a political one. They were a spot missed by the Islamic conquests, and a disgracing patch of dissent in a sea of barbaric consensus.

When we speak of the Islamic conquest, we are not speaking of a single, continuous event but of two massive Blitzkriegs, each of them centuries apart. The first is most familiar. Acting on Muhammad’s sayings, the Arabs of the Arabian peninsula stormed the ancient world, converting the nations of the Middle East and North Africa before petering out in France.

Much later, the Turks, a Mongolian people who had laid down roots in Anatolia, picked up the muddied banner of Jihad and pushed into South-Eastern Europe and Central Asia. By the time both storms had passed, the Armenians, by some miracle of fortune, had survived.

Their Turkish political overlords had failed to extinguish and were now intimidated by their ethnic self-awareness and deeply held Christian beliefs. The Ottomans arrested Armenian intellectuals and outlawed the expression of Armenian identity (as they do now to Kurds). In that grimly familiar process, physical persecution is always the final policy.

The majority of the Armenians who died in the genocide were resident in what is now Turkish territory. Most of the early fatalities were military-age males, judged to be a threat to Turkic supremacy and ongoing nationalist reforms. Later in the campaign, men, women and children alike were driven into the unforgiving Syrian desert and left to die.

There is ample evidence to suggest Adolf Hitler took inspiration from the Turks when designing his own sick project. The world’s inaction when civilians were disposed of in frightening numbers, suggested to the devils of the world that anything was possible with a black heart and an iron will. Pure evil begat pure evil.

Until very recently, the history of Modern Armenia has been one of different tyrannies. The Ottoman Empire and Soviet Union held the nation in bondage for much of the Twentieth century. The free Armenia that stands today deserves our most energetic solidarity and respect.

D, LDN.

Between Paradise and Hell: The Precarious Happiness of the Christian Lebanese.

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This past week, various friends of mine have sent me the link to a viral video from MEMRI TV. It features a sultry Lebanese TV anchor cutting the microphone of a London-based ‘Imam’ after he arrogantly seeks to insert his sexual-religious authority into the conversation.

I’m not as impressed by this as others seem to be. That is because I have never truly considered Lebanon a part of the barbaric construct we call the ‘Islamic World’. Indeed, after the State of Israel, Lebanon seems to me the most civilised and modern country in the greater Middle East.

While it’s true that Muslims now make up a slight majority in the country, the civilising effects of Lebanon’s Christian elite extend deeply into its social and educational fabric. As a consequence, Lebanese Muslims tend to be more ‘secular’ than Syrians or Jordanians, and arguably for reasons directly attributable to Lebanon’s cultural diversity (one of the very time that phrase can be used positively).

If you look through an album of photographs taken in modern Beirut, you might find it difficult to distinguish the streets and piazzas from parts of Portugal, Spain or southern Italy. Despite the ancient mosques and grungy madrassas, one will also notice billboard advertisements for premium wines and Heineken Lager, bare-armed women in tight jeans and sunglasses, as well as gaudy bars and upmarket pubs catering to American and English tourists respectively.

The Lebanese Christians are proudly aware of this geo-cultural strangeness and view any comparison with other Arab states like Saudi Arabia or Jordan as wholly derogatory. Biology plays a role in this. Though all Arabs are a mixture of ancient ancestries, the Lebanese are known to be especially diverse. Genetic investigation of the Christian community has revealed a mixture of Greek, Arab and Western European genetic markers, the last being a hangover from the time when Lebanon functioned as a base for the Crusaders, some of whom remained, intermarried and got lost in the biological stew.

Though we in the West might look down on sectarian attitudes, it is surely easier to sympathise in this case. Imagine for a moment that we in England belonged to a modern, affluent and liberal(ish) country neighboured to the North and East by lands of hellish confusion. We would all eventually come to rely on sheer hostility to prevent the damaging integration of outside elements, especially if defensive alliances seem unavailable.

Only a few miles from the wine bars of Lebanon, the sub-humans of ISIS cut the heads off people accused of summoning demons or practicing witchcraft. Just a short drive from a Beirut Miss Universe pageant is a tent-city where women cannot even leave their homes.

It is hard to think of a more terrifying fragility or a more perfect misery than that of the Christian Lebanese.

D, LDN.

Our Allies in Malaysia.

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I noticed the other week that one of my posts was shared (approvingly) on an anti-Islam website in Malaysia. I consequently enjoyed many hundred visitors to this blog from that country and this left me confused (and happy of course, but still….). I had always assumed Malaysia to be a purely Islamic country like Indonesia, and possessed with a similar religious fervour. I was completely wrong of course, as I later found out from reading about the country online.

Malaysia is a country rarely mentioned in Western Media. While this may be understandable from a purely geographic point of view (Malaysia being a distant and small territory), it isn’t justified from a geo-strategic one. Roughly 60% of the Malaysian population professes the religion of Islam. The remainder are a mixture of Buddhists, Christians, Confucians and Hindus. Despite centuries of coexistence, the Muslim and non-Muslim sections of society are increasingly coming into collision with one another. The Muslims are said to enjoy a plethora of political and economic advantages over the rest of society stemming from the fact that Islam remains the only legally-endorsed ‘state-religion’ in the constitution. Religious minorities by contrast, have to fight for freedoms against the current (even if not the explicit content) of the law.

It’s time Western Counter-Jihad activists took more of an interest in the welfare of these people. The Malaysian Kaffir have struggled for many decades, without significant allies, against the same force that Armenians, Greek Cypriots, and Maronite Christians have opposed more famously and with greater coverage.

There are no limits to Jihad. Bin Laden was very clear that he intended to create a borderless curse on all coherent societies. Malaysia is no different from Armenia in this struggle. They both contain battlelines either side of which are violent Muslims and those they seek convert or enslave.

D, LDN.