Happy Warrior

ACROSS Vermont and Massachusetts and even parts of New Hampshire, the bumper stickers proclaim confidently, WAR IS NOT THE ANSWER.

And they have a point. War isn’t the answer so much as a question: What are you? And is what you are worth defending? There have been two answers to that recently. Jens Orback, Sweden’s minister of democracy, said in a radio discussion, “We must be open and tolerant towards Islam and Muslims because when we become a minority, they will be so towards us.”

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Mark Steyn

Mark Steyn is an international bestselling author, a Top 41 recording artist, and a leading Canadian human-rights activist.

ACROSS Vermont and Massachusetts and even parts of New Hampshire, the bumper stickers proclaim confidently, WAR IS NOT THE ANSWER.

And they have a point. War isn’t the answer so much as a question: What are you? And is what you are worth defending? There have been two answers to that recently. Jens Orback, Sweden’s minister of democracy, said in a radio discussion, “We must be open and tolerant towards Islam and Muslims because when we become a minority, they will be so towards us.”