Mark Steyn, in America Alone, argues not for more war, but for more will:
In a culturally confident age, the British in India were faced with the practice of “suttee” — the tradition of burning widows on the funeral pyres of their husbands. General Sir Charles Napier was impeccably multicultural: “You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours.”
Hat tip to Peter Taylor, who sees multi-culturalism as a variation on reverse jingoism, a way to paint one’s political opponents as bigots.