Demographic realities and the West’s lack of will to survive are two of the major themes in Mark Steyn’s best-seller, “America Alone.”

*More rambling: the most interesting Indian-American family I knew among my diasporan acquaintances was a group of doctors (shocking for Indians, eh?) that consisted of two brothers who were doctors. One married a doctor, who worked and the other married a woman who stayed home and took care of both sets of children while the other three ran a clinic together in a small town. Unusual, even for the limited joint families I knew growing up….

1. Saddam is removed and a sentence soon to be delivered.
2. A constitution is written.
3. Elections have been held.
4. A government is in place, albeit a messy and weak one, dependent on the US for security.
5. And now, sectarian violence/low grade civil war/more than low grade civil war/some level of jihadi activity?

So, where are we? I don’t know. I suppose, there are some things we can’t do for the Iraqis. I do find facts like increasing birth rate interesting, although I don’t know what that means either.

You keep mentioning warmongers. Do other countries have warmongers too, or is it just us?

If you want statistics here are some:
1.6 million Iraqis have fled the country since the war started. 300,000 are displaced internally from sectarian violence. At least 65,000, and probably many more, have been killed. The great majority of Iraqis in every poll say they want us to leave.

And yet the warmongers safe here at home continue to try to pretend that the situation in Iraq is improving.

If that’s really your belief then this seems like a strong case for cutting off all immigration by Muslims. Weak assimilation should be accompanied by no new influx.

As I think many of us find the failure of Europe to both reproduce and defend itself as deeply & sadly important; perhaps the Iraqis, otoh, are building a desire to defend as well as reproduce themselves.

There was a baby boom in post-war Europe, too, not just in America, even though a lot of people still were in mortal danger ans living among ruins. There also is no comparison between today’s Europe and Iraq.

I also don’t agree that Europeans don’t want to defend themselves, while Iraqis have a desire to do so. The threat to us here in Europe is rather vague – a lot of Europeans feel threatened by Islam and militant Muslims, but nobody thinks that attacking Muslim immigrants indiscriminately would make us any safer; if people thought so, quite a lot of Muslim houses would have been firebombed by now. The same goes for attacking Islamic countries – what’s the use? If we killed a lot of them, the people would reproduce faster to make up for the losses, and they’d be liable to carry a grudge.
Iraqis also aren’t so much defending themselves as going for each other’s throats.

So what can we do? We are fighting terrorism mostly using law enforcement, we can hardly sterilize Muslim women to defuse the allged ‘demographic bomb’ etc, etc. So we do what we always did: We subvert, corrupt, contaminate and so on, and so on, anybody who could be a threat. Their leaders may think they are winning, but we ahev give the Islamic world a bad case of the cultural STDs. Trade will finish them off ( remmeber the opium wars? :)