Neptunus Lex

I was chatting with an Irish friend living here in San Diego a couple of years back about the issue of immigration in the UK, especially the number of folks coming in from places with antithetical cultures and whose assimilationist tendencies start and end at the welfare queue. My friend was uncharacteristically uncharitable: “Legacy of empire,” he said.

Indeed.

Update: More about losing, from the City Journal.

The key question for Westerners is: Do we love our freedoms as much as they hate them? Many free people, alas, have become so accustomed to freedom, and to the comfortable position of not having to stand up for it, that they’re incapable of defending it when it’s imperiled—or even, in many cases, of recognizing that it is imperiled. As for Muslims living in the West, surveys suggest that many of them, though not actively involved in jihad, are prepared to look on passively—and some, approvingly—while their coreligionists drag the Western world into the House of Submission.

But we certainly can’t expect them to take a stand for liberty if we don’t stand up for it ourselves.

A fundamental truth about winning and losing is that you can’t beat what you won’t fight.