By Patrick J. Buchanan
By their heroes shall you know them.
In his eulogy, President Obama put Nelson Mandela in the company of
three other heroes: Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, and Abraham
Lincoln.
What did these men have in common? Three were assassinated, and all
four are icons of resistance to white rule over peoples of color.
Lincoln waged the bloodiest war in American history that ended
slavery. Gandhi advanced the end of British rule in India. King led the
civil rights struggle that buried Jim Crow. Mandela was the leader of
the revolution that overthrew apartheid.
Obama's heroes testify to his belief that the great moral struggle of the age is the struggle for racial equality.
For the neocons, the greatest man was Winston Churchill, because he
stood up, almost alone, to the great evil of the age -- Nazism.
Thus, to neocons, Munich was the great betrayal because it was there
that Neville Chamberlain, rather than defy Hitler, agreed to the return
of the Sudeten Germans to German rule. [To the Old Right, Yalta, where
Churchill and FDR ceded Eastern Europe to Stalin, a monster as evil and
more menacing than Hitler, was the greatest betrayal.]
But what did Churchill think of Obama's hero Gandhi?
"It is alarming and nauseating to see Mr. Gandhi, a seditious Middle
Temple lawyer, now posing as a fakir of a type well known in the east,
striding half naked up the steps of the Viceregal Palace ... to parlay
on equal terms with the representative of the Emperor-King."
What did Churchill think of ending Western white rule of peoples of color? Here he is in 1937:
"I do not admit ... that a great wrong has been done to the Red
Indians of America or the black people of Australia ... by the fact that
a stronger race, a higher grade race ... has come in and taken its
place."
Here is Churchill during World War II:
"I have not become the King's first minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire."
In short, Dunkirk defiance aside, Churchill's convictions about the
superiority of some races and civilizations, and their inherent right to
rule what Kipling called "the lesser breeds without the law," was and
is the antithesis of what Obama believes.
Any wonder Obama shipped that bust of Churchill that "W" kept in the
Oval Office back to the British embassy. Any surprise Obama failed to
show up at the funeral of Margaret Thatcher, a Churchillian who sent the
fleet to retake the Falkland Islands from Argentina.
The point: Obama's vision of an ideal world and Churchill's are irreconcilable.
Second, not only is Churchill dead, his empire is dead, his world is
dead, and his ideas on superior races and civilizations would be
censured and censored if spoken in any international forum.
We are in Obama's world now. It is a world where not only are all
races, religions and civilizations equal, but within nations the greater
the diversity of races, religions, cultures and ethnic groups the
better.
And not only should all have equal rights, but more equal rewards.
Inequality equals injustice. Income inequality is the new enemy.
But though Obama's world is today, it is looking less like tomorrow.
Across the Middle East and Africa, Islamists are murdering and
persecuting Christians as they do not regard Christianity as equal.
Ethnonationalism unites Chinese against Tibetans and Uighurs and
propels a confrontation with the Japanese who have never been forgiven
for the Rape of Nanking.
Vladimir Putin is in the crosshairs of Western secularists for
seeking to revive and restore Orthodox Christianity and its moral
precepts to primacy in Russian law, which likely means no Gay Pride
parades in Red Square any time soon.
In a Christmas card to this writer, the Washington Post's Harold
Meyerson brings up my late father's support of Spain's Gen. Francisco
Franco -- to reveal the son's suspect motives.
In a civil war from 1936-1939, Franco ran off a Christophobic regime
of Socialists, Stalinists and Trotskyists as their comrades of the
Abraham Lincoln Battalion got waxed at Jarama River and ended up on the
Attorney General's List of Subversive Organizations.
Sorry about that, Harold.
Across Europe, globalism and transnationalism, as represented by the
eurozone and EU, seem in retreat, as nationalism is resurgent. Now it
is the UKIP, a new British independence party, which seeks to secede
from the EU that is surging -- at the expense of the Tories.
Let France be France! Let Britain be Britain! Let Scotland be
Scotland! These are the cries coming from the hearts of Europeans
rejecting mass immigration and the cacophonous madness of
multiculturalism.
All men may be equal in rights. But most prefer their own faith,
country, culture, civilization, and kind. They cherish and wish to
maintain their own unique and separate identities. They do not want to
disappear into some great amalgam of the New World Order.
Whether globalism or nationalism prevails, the big battle is coming.
By Patrick J. Buchanan
