Steyn:

Consider the Bishop of Lichfield, who at Evensong, on the night of the bombings, was at pains to assure his congregants: “Just as the IRA has nothing to do with Christianity, so this kind of terror has nothing to do with any of the world faiths.” It’s not so much the explicit fatuousness of the assertion so much as the broader message it conveys: we’re the defeatist wimps; bomb us and we’ll apologise to you. That’s why in Britain the Anglican Church is in a death-spiral and Islam is the fastest-growing religion. There’s no market for a faith that has no faith in itself. And as the Church goes so goes the state: why introduce identity cards for a nation with no identity?

It is hard to look back across the Rubicon and imagine the way the multi-cultis must see the world and our dedicated enemies in order to say such nonsense. Perhaps they really have lost their faiths — in their religion, their nation and themselves.

For our part, we agree with Baldilocks, and for that matter, to some extent with Tom Tancredo, whose remarks have been mischaracterized, and are, in any event, unexceptional in terms of military scenario planning — unless you believe that the US should tolerate the nuking of one of its cities without retaliating in kind. If you happen to think one particular city is off limits, well, that is certainly open to debate, but somebody better be roasting at a comfy 10,000 degrees — and none of the financial and other backers of such acts should feel there is a place where they have absolute sanctuary.

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