Thursday, March 06, 2008

Howard '08!   [Mark Steyn]

By the way, Kathryn, I'm very envious of you getting an invite to that AEI swankeroo gala for John Howard. For those of us who didn't make the cut, here's the full speech. The great man was on cracking form. This bit goes well with that Michael Graham column:

If the butter of common national values is spread too thinly it will disappear altogether...

It is not only their intrinsic worth that should be staunchly defended. It is also because radical Islam senses – correctly – that there is a soft underbelly of cultural self-doubt in certain Western societies.

There are too many in our midst who think, deep down, that it is really “our fault” and if only we entered into some kind of federal cultural compact, with our critics, the challenges would disappear.

Perhaps it was this sentiment which led the Archbishop of Canterbury to make the extraordinary comment several weeks ago, that in Britain some accommodation with aspects of Sharia law was inevitable.

It is fundamental to the continued unity and purpose of a democratic nation state that there not only be respect for the rule of law but the state have but one body of law, to which all are accountable.  

Any chance of a quickie constitutional amendment to enable Howard to run for President?

03/06 09:05 AMShare