It cannot be said often enough that the chief of staff of the UnitedStates Army, Gen. George Casey, responded to a massacre of 13 Americansin which the suspect is a Muslim by saying: “Our diversity … is astrength.”
As long as the general has brought it up: Neverin recorded history has diversity been anything but a problem. Look atIreland with its Protestant and Catholic populations, Canada with itsFrench and English populations, Israel with its Jewish and Palestinianpopulations.
Or consider the warring factions in India, SriLanka, China, Iraq, Czechoslovakia (until it happily split up), theBalkans and Chechnya. Also look at the festering hotbeds of tribalwarfare — I mean the beautiful mosaics — in Third World hellholeslike Afghanistan, Rwanda and South Central, L.A.”Diversity” is a difficulty to be overcome, not an advantage to besought. True, America does a better job than most at accommodating adiverse population. We also do a better job at curing cancer andcontaining pollution. But no one goes around mindlessly exclaiming:”Cancer is a strength!” “Pollution is our greatest asset!”