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AP A few years ago Robert Kagan wrote a polemic with the amusing title of Americans are from Mars and Europeans are from Venus. Don t kid yourself. When it comes to conjuring up hobgoblins, both sides are on the same wave length.Just in time for Bill O Reilly s annual moan-fest about the heathen s war on Christmas comes news that Switzerland has voted to prohibit the construction of new minarets. They can still build mosques. I ll leave it to others to explore the domestic dynamics behind the Swiss vote, but the early rush of arguments offered by U.S. apologists of the ban could be plucked from any of the countless culture war moments from the last two decades that have pitted an us against them. The usual cohort enthusiastically endorsed the vote to in their words stop the Islamisation of Europe while offering kudos to the Swiss for a job well done. So it is that National Review s David Pryce-Jones neatly set up a straw man to knock over with the help of this admirably snarky verbal smack down: No stanley kubek country in Europe quite knows w stanley quencher hat to do about the Muslims who have come to live there. What exact stanley portugal ly should be conceded to them, and why These puzzling questions go to the core of national identity. Defying those who claim the right to set the terms of public debate, the Swiss have tried to draw a line. Whether the opinion-making elite of the entire continent will allow them to keep to it is quite another matter. Amazing how much he misunderstands in that brief paragrap