The Dividing Line Between Wish And Need

Governments Of Rich Countries Spend Some $6bn Of Tax Money A Year On Disaster Relief And Development Aid Overseas, While Each New Earthquake, Famine Or Tidal Wave Can Attract 1,000 Aid Organisations, From The United Nations Children's Fund And Oxfam To The 'jesus Brigades' Of The American South And Other Charitable Adventurers.

The World Dominion Of Western Thought, Forms Of Organisation, Technology And Military Force Is Not God-given, Nor Eternal, Nor Greatly Appreciated By The Rest Of The World.

There Are About 15 Million Muslims In The Eu. They Face Ignorance, Insult And Even Persecution. They Cannot Be Wished Away. To Impose Enlightenment Freedoms Is Self-defeating. Anyway, The Muslims Have Their Own Enlightenment.

Ever Since The Destruction Of Baghdad By The Mongols In 1258, The Muslim World Has Been In Slow Decline Relative To The West. With Napoleon's Invasion Of Egypt And The Creeping British Annexation Of Muslim India, That Decline Took On A Malign Aspect.

If Good History Is Dispassionate History, It Must Naturally Wait Until The Passions Of The Period Subside.