Melanie Phillips still supports that "mission" in Iraq. She thinks that a less unstable Iraq, a more prosperous Iraq, where assorted lions lie down with assorted other lions, the whole held together by force of Western arms, will promote Infidel interests by bringing transformative "democracy" to "ordinary moms and dads," and that Shi'a-dominated Iraq can be a Light Unto the (Sunni) Muslim Nations. She fails to explain exactly why this makes sense; she identifies that Bush-Blair policy with a "muscularity" that she apparently admires, and does not stop to ask if the West would not do better to exploit pre-existing fissures in Iraq and in the greater Camp of Islam. And while she identifies the problem of Islam in the Lands of the Infidels, she still draws back, still will not reach certain conclusions, and continues to confuse her audience and herself, in her failure to think things through.  She has not, I think, called for a halt on Muslim immigration, has failed to discuss the un-usefulness, and even comical unhelpfulness, of the phrase or concept of the "moderate" Muslim -- who, if that word "moderate" could be defined, could still lie about his "moderation," or could be "moderate" today and "immoderate" tomorrow.

She writes about Israel, but never about the war on Israel as a Lesser Jihad, with the two camps, Hamas and Fatah, differing not on ultimate goals but only on tactics and timing: a case of the Fast Jihadists and the no-less-unpalatable and dangerous Slow Jihadists. Nor has she pointed out that the mere swelling of Muslim numbers in the West will, in democracies, with pusillanimous politicians, inevitably swell Muslim power, and cow or overwhelm those attempting to defend against that power. She has her points. But she hasn't shown a desire to have her readers grasp the whole, to make the connections, and to begin to think about the kinds of measures that are perfectly justifiable, and made sense to such advanced and tolerant representatives of High European Civilization as the Czech statesmen Eduard Benes and Jan Masaryk.