A Travesty

Friday’s lead editorial in the New York Times attacked President Bush’s plan to use secret military tribunals to try terrorists, calling it "a dangerous idea." Rehearsing arguments well-known on these subjects, the Times has a better idea: "He should ask the United Nations Security council to establish an international tribunal….If Slobodan Milosevic can be brought to trial…so can Osama bin Ladin."

What is behind this opposition of the New York Times to summary trials for terrorists is what the Times stands for: multiculturalism and a universal global state -no more nations; no more wars. When attacked have a peace process and if that fails give up national existence.

With respect to multiculturalism its worth noting what a liberal Harvard professor has to say about this liberal ideal. In 1996 Samuel Huntington wrote: "The American multiculturalists…reject their country’s cultural heritage….[T]hey wish to create a country of many civilizations, which is to say a country not belonging to any civilization and lacking a cultural core."

That this is the Times aim is clear enough. Responding to the report of the 2000 census showing that California will soon be non-White, non-Christian and effectively "a country of many civilizations" the Times said this: "everyone will be a minority….[This is the] quintessentially American notion."

But it’s not. It is quintessentially undesirable but also impossible -again Huntington: "History shows that no country so constituted can long endure as a coherent society. A multicivilizational United States will not be the United States; it will be the United Nations."

But that’s the point. The Times' "better idea" is to turn the terrorists over to the United Nations Security Council. The UN, in addition to being an anti-American body, is the ideal of a multicivilizational US.

The New York Times is not on our side. It is quintessentially anti-American meaning if we are attacked the New York Times will be for peace before we win the war to prevent our being murdered by foreigners. The cure is not to make all foreigners nationals so there won’t be any nation.

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