Melanie Phillips:
The New Frontiers Foundation think-tank has published an utterly extraordinary and brilliant essay which should be compulsory reading for all in Britain’s power elites. It is the most important document I have seen produced by anyone in government for a very long time. It has been written anonymously by someone described only as ‘a senior UK official who has worked on issues of foreign and security policy for most of his professional life’. He has delivered a powerful cri de coeur that Britain, having never recovered from its post-Suez nervous breakdown and now paralysed by the choice between two diametrically opposing philosophies of the world represented by Europe and America, is in grave danger of siding with Europe and thus destroying its security and gravely weakening the western alliance. For the west, he says, is far from united:
‘Between America, Britain, and the EU, there is little agreement on current ideology and philosophy, future threats, or developing capabilities. This makes any sense of a coherent vision and purpose for the West increasingly difficult to sustain and throws a cloud over current alliances.’
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He understands the utter foolishness of the new orthodoxy in Britain and Europe of seeking to rely upon international law as substitute for war:
‘International law will not prove a salvation from conflict, nor will the two organisations dedicated to its spread – the UN and the EU. Both suffer dual problems: a legitimacy problem, given that legitimacy in the West relates to democratic accountability and neither organisation is democratically accountable; and an enforcement problem, given that both seek to minimise the power of the individual state but both rely on individual states. Further, international law is making it harder to conduct military operations by applying what are often inappropriate legal concepts to violent situations not susceptible to solution by civilian methods (the dilemma of “warfighting” or “peacekeeping”).’
He understands that the western media have become fifth columnists:
‘The transmission of information to enemies and terrorist groups is a paradoxical consequence of our open economies and requires new responses. It may also prove that, despite our superior technology, enemies nevertheless succeed in outperforming our decision-making either by shifting the nature of the conflict such that our technological advantage (in sensors etc) is denied (eg. Somalia), or by using our own media to paralyse our morale and decision-making (eg. partially in Serbia, now in Iraq). We should not assume we will win Information Wars just because we are better at producing IT.’
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Europe and America now have radically different views of the world, of human nature and of moral agency. From this writer’s masterly analysis it is clear that Europe is finished – not least because one of the reasons it now refuses to defend itself militarily is that it is unwilling to sustain any losses, since its populations have fallen below replacement level and it is relying instead on immigration to keep going – a process that will ultimately lead to its Islamicisation.
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