Submission!
Another version of the Stockholm syndrome has raised its head. Where freedom-loving, human-rights-advancing democracies, become so dedicated to their imperialist-past mea culpas, have convinced themselves that all the ills of the world have followed on their past wrong-doings, their beliefs in their superiority over the fortunes of less materially, technically-advanced countries of the world.There is much to atone for. Equity must be advanced at any cost. Those who were previously preyed upon, whose countries' natural resources and riches were sacked by the countries of Europe and North America must now be courteously helped to ascend, and become unreservedly entitled to whatever their grievance-endowed grudges and victim-status allows. Well, in fact, they are permitted anything and everything.
What the West feels is compassionate sympathy extended to the underdog, the victimized, slavering for revenge, interprets as weakness. The formerly complacent overlord succumbing to weak-kneed supplicant begging forgiveness. Dissolving completely any vestige of perceived or actual advantage of superiority. Of direction, of societal moral compass, of economic and political and social mentoring.
Who are we to teach those whom we have wronged? The self-esteem of the West has been irremediably wounded. The self-regard of the vast company of the oppressed has been granted a new life-lease, one that balances its success on the suppression of anything resembling acceptable accommodation. Revenge is sweet, and to be nurtured, and look at this! those abject apologists are even willing to aid and assist!
Islamists and their cronies and supporters name the price: terror. And when the physical manifestation of terror; fear transmuted to human wreckage materializes, celebration, joyful ululations! Not only among the aggrieved, celebrating pay-back, but also among their supporters who have melded themselves into an obsequious chorus of self-flagellating vengeance-boosters.
But who might have imagined that the administration of the United States itself would go that route? In effect, offering a world stage for the triumphant and martyr-availing designers of the World Trade Centre attacks to embroider and thunder from the pulpit of the witness stand the well-deserved response from the world of the underprivileged to that of the world-dominators.
The loathsome jihadists whose dearest dream come true is to destroy countless lives and all symbols of western superiority over the downtrodden east have been given the stage they desire. Brought the colossus to its knees. First through a series of cataclysmic wreckages of both lives and property, and now through a loud, availing denunciation and accusation whose triumph will be echoed electrically throughout the world.
Surely, this is Paradise delivered on a silver salver. And it is not angels, but twirling virgin maidens dancing on the head of a pin.
Labels: Human Fallibility, Justice, Terrorism, United States
posted by Pieface @ Sunday, November 22, 2009
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