Western Diplomacy: Imploring the Terrorists

The only language the terrorists understand is force!

In this same vein I'd like to request reinsertion of former Ambassador Crawford's 2015 essay published by The Gatehouse Institute. It is so tragically more essential a message for world leaders today.

We must take the gloves off. Stop apologizing for your culture and the tapestry of religion, ideology, law, and social practices that created your unique free nation. You need not do nothing about the insurgency by gangs or terrorists because you doubt if you are preventing an executioner from decapitating citizens whose thinking he finds offensive. You will not "become the enemy" by resisting their push to convert your nations's law to that of their home state. We are missing faithfulness to our own cultural national soul and the fortitude to defend it in even the smallest of ways. Twelve small inches make a foot, and only three make a yard. Politely and firmly, the answer sometimes is "No".

Will the Taliban ever change their attitude and compromise their Sharia law standard?
Will they allow women to work without Burqa and only a scarf? Will they allow young girls to study unencumbered?
Will they allow women to drive.
Its a pity they did not at least appoint one female minister. It shows their attitude.
So simple, if they do not implement modern changes to the sharia law and operative policies, then all financial aid cease from all countries, America showing the lead??
Will that happen
There will be no cricket, what a shame, for the reasons we know why.

No surprises for me here. Few bold actions, mostly from Western nations quivering cowardice. Born in South Africa where I spent the first 22 years of my life, especially after apartheid arrived and blighted the scene hypocritical Western conduct, its selective morality and double standards left within a feeling that after decades in the West never departed. Reinforcing my impressions was the thrust of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's amazing 1978 Harvard Commencement Address, that Western leaders are indeed weak and cowardly, and undoubted now even more so than in 1978.
Said Solzhenitsyn: "A decline in courage may be the most striking feature that an outside observer notices in the West today.....
"Political and intellectual functionaries exhibit this depressing passivity and perplexity in their actions and in their statements, and even more so in their self-serving rationales as to how realistic, reasonable, and intellectually and even morally justified it is to base state policies on weakness and cowardice.
"Must one point out that from ancient times a decline in courage has been considered the first symptom of the end?"

It's rather anti Western Diplomacy leading the west and from capitulation to capitulation and Afghanistan shameful disaster is the last example of it. Those Western "diplomats" lead by USA present Administration are rather "blind leaders of blinds"

Peter Rotberg.
True believer.

If stupidity reigns in the Western world, it will get what it deserves.

The American military is more concerned with woke than weapons, so guess how effective they will be. However, after having spent trillions of USD and 20 years in Afghanistan and achieved absolutely nothing, maybe it is time to take a long, hard look at our entire modus operandi as a civilization (while we still have it, it is going fast in certain countries, the US as always leading the way). Before the Chinese sorts us out, I mean.

Would I fight for the American judge who ruled that deportation was 'racist' because there were so few illegal white migrants to be deported? Would I even want to be in alliance with a country where she can have power? Would I want to support the policies of a man who wants to acknowledge the Taliban as long as they are 'inclusive'? Would I want to be dependent on Joe Biden being able to know Norway from a hole in the ground?

Once upon a time I would have said that the bolshies were the real danger. But they have done a splendid job reinventing themselves, and are now socialists and green meanies and liberals. Oh, and still the main danger. Whichever nation they represent. They are the aiders and abetters, the backstabbers, the 5th column.

It may look so, but what else can they do? The Tban are in effective control of the country or at least the cities where the airports are. They also hold the people, both Afghan and Westerner, hostage and can cut off their escape at any time, so as the old saying goes, you catch more flies with honey. Threats can come later, although some countries have already said they will impose sanctions if the Tban do not keep to their 'promises'. The leadership are uttering fine words now, but the rabble they lead are somehting else.

The world's going to hell in a hand cart.

They believe that they will eventually rule the world, and that they ought to rule the world because God has told them so.
Tell people like that that they face the tut-tutting disapproval of God's enemies if they adhere devoutly to God's commandments. See what it gets you.

Excellent journalism.
Western cultural elitists, steeped in corruption, installed an Afghani puppet government that fled when the chips were down, and hauled their tainted ill-gotten gains with them. Now all the West can think to do is threaten to withhold monetary support from the Taliban. Say what you will, the Talibs may be hardened and merciless bastards but they are not corrupt. They have not compromised their value system.

Most notably, Gregor Gysi was a top-ranking official of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) in the former DDR, the communist dictatorship of Eastern Germany before the fall of the Soviet Union.

And Hollywood, our self-proclaimed, self-righteous, privileged moral arbiters against all things Trumpian, except their own debaunched lives, is deathly silent. Don't expect a movie soon.

Excellent article by Mr. Meotti. Never better said. Last year we saw many in the US taking a knee and bowing their heads in the face of the demands by BLM. Today we see many Western politicians similarly taking a knee and bowing their heads in submission, begging the Taliban to be "nice". Difficult to believe that what is happening is really happening. Given all the wonders that the Biden-Harris Administration has achieved in just seven months, maybe it should be considered for a Nobel Peace Prize!

It has been suggested elsewhere that the US Embassy's unfurling a "pride" flag was taken by far too many Afghans as a massive "F. U." to their traditional sensibilities. Many were led to think that the religious repression of the Taliban is really not all that much worse than this sort of cultural violence by the American "Great Satan."

The level of tone deafness and patronizing contempt for Afghanistan as it really is (not as we sought to remake it) may well have been the proverbial last straw.

These details written with absolute conviction and honesty ( rare qualities in today's world) have sounded the clarion call to all civilized people for action. So much of what has been stated regarding the betrayal by almost ALL Western actors on this stage ( UK Ambassador Nick Kay being the one exception) bears the indelible print of the prelude to WW2, and to the facile, weak-kneed appeals of Neville Chamberlain to Hitler to 'please stop'. Face it, we are now confronted with the distinct possibility of annihilation at the hands of anthropological leftovers who have crawled out of the primordial slime to 'dispense' with our services. We are out of time. Our enemies care not a whit for luxury living or the easy life - they live in barren, mud filled lands - and their entire lives are governed by war and the desire to kill. We now urgently need to divest ourselves of our own weak minded, facile and to quote Tony Blair, imbecilic mutton headed fools who are focused on cultural Marxism and gender issues, anti Christian/ anti Semitic and anti WESTERN propaganda. These folks have targeted the very fabric of our culture for destruction - proffering in its place .......the Taliban - or 'cultures' very much like that of the Taliban. It's time we all woke up to this threat to our future well being - and soon!

we dig up buried civilizations all the time. this one is buried alive. or perhaps there will be a conflagration and the space aliens we are now assured are visiting us in ufos' will next find a dead planet like the ones in our space adventures. one thing is for sure we are not coming back and we are the last generation who remembers how good it felt to laugh out loud.

This policy of appeasement/crawling to terrorists should come as no surprise to anyone. The Obama administration had Muslim Brotherhood dictating their ME policy, while strutting around the WH. For decades, the West has been paying Hamas and the Palestinians to kill Israelis, even to promoting the teaching of hatred in Palestinian schools via UNRWA; supported the mujahideen to wage war on the Russians. Globally we have played the enemy of my enemy is my friend card so often, the confusion is patent. Joe Biden is a weak, unprincipled mockery of a leader. What happened in Afghanistan since 17/08/2021 was entirely predictable from this pastiche of a POTUS.

Thanks for this Giulio. Clear and hard hitting as you often are in your writing.
Very similar to Prof Milliere, Judith Bergman, and a number of others I read frequently here at Gatestone.

I believe a number of you Gatestone journalists should collaborate on a powerful message to the US Gov and citizens, perhaps coming as a Gatestone communique.
About half the country is conservative and more if you include moderate Dems. I believe the incompetence of the Biden Admin will bring the moderates closer to center. You would have an audience here.

Here is a link to UK Ret Col Richard Kemp's article here at Gatestone on the need for a global coalition to defend democracy.
It is brilliant, nothing less.

Light on bureaucracy, covering different areas of the globe with small coalitions that will solve problems in their own areas but aided by the entire group as needed.

It is my opinion that the West should be arming itself to the teeth, to include India, S Korea, Japan, Brazil and perhaps even Vietnam, which is no friend of China.
Time to dump the neo-Marxist, woke narrative designed to destroy Western civilization and turn it into the supposed utopian paradise ruled by autocrats of "superior intelligence"...sound familiar? Hope and change?

Time for a return to healthy nuclear families (I.e. Hungary, Poland and other family friendly countries), not perfect by any means but the building block of healthy democratic nation states, which themselves in cooperation with other democratic societies, can live in peace and safety with strong militaries to guarantee it.
Democratic nation states also retain true diversity, in keeping their own languages, traditions and customs all under the umbrella of democratic rule.

That's my toolbelt analysis, life long carpenter, no scholar here.
Please consider the suggestion.

Thanks to Gatestone for its platform for great journalism.

Good article, exposing all the elite traitor class against those realists with their heads screwed on. Tony Blair was quick on the uptake. The withdrawal would have "every jihadist group around the world cheering" said Blair.
The critical issue is the patriarchal influence coupled to the Koran, and the omnipresence of Taqiyya, the telling of lies to further Islam, which in this case is Sharia. Theresa May wanted action, not words.
All the gains to equality of sexes are now up for grabs. Women journalists particularly are prime targets as these represent the greatest threat from the Taliban perspective.
Pleading with Muslims of this kind is merely playing into their hands, and history has shown there can be precious little clemency. Tamerlane butchered 90,000 in one day, and left the pile of skulls outside the city gates. No pleading could change his mind.
" "If you impose sharia law, we will no longer give you our money", said Germany's Foreign Minister Heiko Maas, who was also terrifying the Taliban.", is about the only way to do business with Afghanistan from here on. Any other operative would be seen as a weakness.
Thank you Giulio Meotti for putting the facts out into public view. You have the finger on the pulse.

Imploring and appeasing terrorists - isn't a Western diplomacy - it is anti- Western diplomacy
Pre WW2 similar attempts to appease German Nazis and their Italian and other allies incl. Japanese militarists caused the World dozens of millions of deaths, crippled, mentally depressed people and immeasurable material losses. WW3 front lines are looming
Afghanistan disastrous fiasco proves the opposite.
Peter Rotberg
Holocaust Survivor.

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To read Meotti's article is to be sick with feelings of pain and revulsion that touches ones innermost soul. Has the free world descended such depths of an abyss too deep to scale back out of it .. Reading Bible stories about Sodom & Gomorrah, one could hardly believe the behaviour described.. Today, I can totally believe the stories in Old Testament . How will it all end? Is the barrel full of rot? perhaps we should not bother about climate change? or is this the long game for getting to globalisation?

A pop song of the sixties was 'when will they ever learn'; or something like that. When will the Western so called leaders ever learn that you cannot make deals with Muslim jihadists. Iran, Hamas have demonstrated that over and over. You can make all the deals, solemn agreements and accept all their promises but they will never do what they say. It is called taqqiya or lying to the enemy.

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