Paul Bremer, lately America’s viceroy in Baghdad, is sounding positively Steynian in this analysis of Europe for The Stanford Review:

Both the Pope and Huntington are correct. It is a fact of history that Europe is based on Judeo-Christian values. But Europe seems unwilling, or perhaps afraid, to acknowledge this reality. . . . If you don’t know what you stand for, you cannot easily figure out how to defend it.
European countries have a large, and in most places, growing Muslim population. The vast majority of these men and women are not terrorists. But as events have shown, there are among them extremists who reject everything the West and Europe stand for. . . .
Europe also faces a demographic time bomb. The population of every major European country is falling. This will place unsustainable burdens on the elaborate and expensive welfare programs built up over the decades. As the Muslim populations grow in proportion to overall populations, it is vital that Europe find a way to integrate peaceful Muslims while defeating extremists.
For all of these reasons, the Atlantic Alliance, so long the keystone to American and Western security, will find itself under significant strain in the years ahead.

That thesis has been part of the cultural conversation for some years, thanks to a handful of writers on both sides of the Atlantic. But, as Tony Blair told Martin Amis not too long ago, it’s not yet part of the political conversation: Very few prominent office-holders in Europe or North America are willing to talk openly about what one senior U.S. official conceded privately was the biggest “paradigm shift” since the start of the Cold War. I wonder how many other current and recently retired figures from the war on terror think like Mr. Bremer.