QotD: The "Anglosphere"

I note these leaders are all "Anglo-Saxons," and that the Continental European politicians who tried to be like them (Aznar in Spain, Berlusconi in Italy) were thrown out of office for their efforts. For some reason, when it comes to understanding certain hard facts about how the world works, "English as a first language" really seems to help.

Yet for all the best efforts of our Anglosphere and its sometime allies, our overall western response to the challenge of an aggressively violent totalitarianism remains profoundly timid. Our national debate should not be about what to do in Afghanistan, but what to do in Iran. About how China is poised to exploit our difficulties. Instead of bringing troops home, we should be thinking about how to double, quadruple, or octuple our military, for the grim scenes ahead. And what social programs to sacrifice to pay for all that.

We should be surveying the contemporary landscape like eagles, not ostriches.

David Warren, "Many Faraway Quarrels", Western Standard, 2006-10-09