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In this
mailing:
by Giulio Meotti
• March 26, 2017 at 5:00 am
- Jihadists seem to be
leading an assault against freedom and against secular
democracies.
- Sunni Islam's most
prominent preacher, Yusuf al Qaradawi, declared that the day
will come when, like Constantinople, Rome will be Islamized.
- It is Islam, not
Christianity, that now saturates Europe's landscape and
imagination.
Hundreds of Muslims engage in a mass prayer service
next to the Coliseum in Rome, on October 21, 2016. (Image source:
Ruptly video screenshot)
According
to US President Trump's strategic advisor Steve Bannon, the
"Judeo-Christian West is collapsing, it is imploding. And it's
imploding on our watch. And the blowback of that is going to be
tremendous".
The
impotence and the fragility of our civilization is haunting many
Europeans as well.
by Amir George
• March 26, 2017 at 4:00 am
- "We fought
against them [Americans] and instead of harming us, they fed,
clothed and rebuilt us. If it had been the Russians who had
won the war instead, we would now be like North Korea." —
Owner of a noodle shop, Japan.
- Now is not the time
to withdraw from the world, but to love, support and build a
hurting and needy world that simply needs to know there is
hope.
Soldiers from the U.S. Army's 4th Battalion hand out
small American flags and gifts to children during a goodwill visit
to a village outside of Tikrit, Iraq, on April 1, 2006. (Image
source: U.S. Army)
People may
be familiar with the term "The Greatest Generation," now
almost past, who fought World War II and rebuilt America in the
shadow of the Great Depression.
Now there
is "The Grateful Generation" -- those who were touched by
"The Greatest Generation," their kindness and love in
rebuilding the world after World War II. We in Asia and parts of
the Middle East have a special place in our hearts for America.
From the
graves of brave Americans at Normandy to freeing East Germany from
Soviet domination, the United States has been the major force in
leading the world for good.
After the
end of World War II, General Douglas McArthur put out a call for
10,000 young men and women to help rebuild postwar Japan. Decades
of abuse under a terrible dictator began slowly to heal.
My parents
came to Japan, separately, from the West, met in Japan, married
there, had their family and served the country for nearly 60 years.
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