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My personal musings about anything that gets on my radar screen--heavily dominated by politics.

2007-07-09

Hitting the Nail On The Head

In one short post at The Corner, Victor Davis Hansen cuts right to the heart of why we're on the brink of surrendering the War: because we refuse to look the enemy square in the eye.

What is striking about all this savagery—whether with the filmed beheadings of Westerners in Iraq to the recent flaming Johnny Storm human torch at Glasgow, screaming epithets as he sought to engulf bystanders and ignite his canisters — is the absolute silence of the West, either distracted by Paris and i-Phones or suffering from Bush Derangement Syndrome and obsessed with Guantanamo.

It is hard to recall an enemy so savage and yet one so largely ignored by rich affluent and distracted elites as the radical jihadists, as we have to evoke everything from mythology to comic books to find analogies to their extra-human viciousness.

For a self-congratulatory culture issuing moral lectures on everything from global warming to the dangers of smoking, the silence of the West toward the primordial horror from Gaza to Anbar is, well, horrific in its own way as well...
Posted by: Michael / 7/09/2007 10:22:00 AM

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