So the leaders of Russia, Belarus, Iran, the Taliban, the Wagner Group, the Houthis, Hizbollah, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Boko Haram, Al-Shabaab are all helpless, innocent victims? For lack of a better metaphor, isn’t that somewhat black and white? 14 centuries of Islamic invasions, conquests, bloodthirsty rampaging, enslaving, raping, massacring every nation that refused to accept the yoke of Islam? And now the 1.8 billion, nuclear-armed, oil-rich, woman-hating, gay-and-Jew killing Islamists are playing victim? Come on, Richard. The Anglo-American fossil fuel and military Apartheid loving kleptocracy is horrific, but compared to Genghis Khan, Suleiman, the Pashas, the Iraqi, Syrian, Jordanian, Egyptian, Palestinian allies of Hitler and Stalin, Khomeini, or Putin, Hamas, the Houthis and the Taliban? They’re total green peas, beginners.
With all due respect, this article would have been an incisive and brilliant exposition had it been written in the late 1960’s. Indeed, after American military intervention in the Dominican Republic in 1965, a CIA sponsored coup in Greece in 1967, and when America was pummeling Indochina with napalm, crop defoliants, and antipersonnel weapons, a galvanizing indictment against rapacious and violent Western Imperialism made all the sense in the world.
Although bright people should have nimble minds, academia suffers from ideational sclerosis. As it repeats its old slogans, it becomes wedded to archaic conceptions. Its thought become wooden, stiff and arthritic – and invalid.
The West no longer strides across the globe like a giant. The power of China, India and Brazil have risen dramatically. The augmentation of power in other states creates the ineluctable loss of power in the West.
Furthermore, your reference to Gaza is so blithely indifferent to so many factors that prove that Israel is acting in its own self defense: A) Israel withdrew from Gaza in 2004 and before withdrawing built factories in Gaza so it would earn money (The People of Gaza respond by invading Israel and committing horrifying atrocities, such as driving nails into women’s vaginas, documented by the NY Times); B) Israel offered to give up 96 percent of the West Bank and Arafat walked out of negotiation, C) no one said that Jordan and Egypt obstructed Palestinian self determination from 48 to 67 when they controlled the West bank and Gaza respectively, and equity demands that Israel not be castigated for muffling Palestinian autonomy. There are so many issues re Israel and Gaza, and no time to discuss them. I refer you to a few of my articles on substack.
Also, the West has created within the West mechanisms to undermine the West and buttress the adored and fetishized third world. In most of our universities, DEI, affirmative action and the inculcation of a masochistic culture of white guilt is subverting thought and induing the West to make more and more concessions to the third world.
The Marxists of old had some good points: They called our attention to class war, and a revolution of the poor would better the living standards of poor whites as well as poor blacks. However, the retrograde false left of contemporary academia, for the most, only care about color – and other usually immutable conditions They seem to be aching for Rassenkrieg, or what the Germans called race war. I will support the Western verities and values over the muck and mayhem of the third world any day of the week.
What is the true reason Biden is running for President? To insure that Trump wins? The DNC could not find a viable candidate other than Biden? Totally insane and self-destructive. Looking at the political history of this nation - it is a sad, dishonest one. We are watching the swirling around the abyss as the country goes down the drain.
So the leaders of Russia, Belarus, Iran, the Taliban, the Wagner Group, the Houthis, Hizbollah, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Boko Haram, Al-Shabaab are all helpless, innocent victims? For lack of a better metaphor, isn’t that somewhat black and white? 14 centuries of Islamic invasions, conquests, bloodthirsty rampaging, enslaving, raping, massacring every nation that refused to accept the yoke of Islam? And now the 1.8 billion, nuclear-armed, oil-rich, woman-hating, gay-and-Jew killing Islamists are playing victim? Come on, Richard. The Anglo-American fossil fuel and military Apartheid loving kleptocracy is horrific, but compared to Genghis Khan, Suleiman, the Pashas, the Iraqi, Syrian, Jordanian, Egyptian, Palestinian allies of Hitler and Stalin, Khomeini, or Putin, Hamas, the Houthis and the Taliban? They’re total green peas, beginners.
With all due respect, this article would have been an incisive and brilliant exposition had it been written in the late 1960’s. Indeed, after American military intervention in the Dominican Republic in 1965, a CIA sponsored coup in Greece in 1967, and when America was pummeling Indochina with napalm, crop defoliants, and antipersonnel weapons, a galvanizing indictment against rapacious and violent Western Imperialism made all the sense in the world.
Although bright people should have nimble minds, academia suffers from ideational sclerosis. As it repeats its old slogans, it becomes wedded to archaic conceptions. Its thought become wooden, stiff and arthritic – and invalid.
The West no longer strides across the globe like a giant. The power of China, India and Brazil have risen dramatically. The augmentation of power in other states creates the ineluctable loss of power in the West.
Furthermore, your reference to Gaza is so blithely indifferent to so many factors that prove that Israel is acting in its own self defense: A) Israel withdrew from Gaza in 2004 and before withdrawing built factories in Gaza so it would earn money (The People of Gaza respond by invading Israel and committing horrifying atrocities, such as driving nails into women’s vaginas, documented by the NY Times); B) Israel offered to give up 96 percent of the West Bank and Arafat walked out of negotiation, C) no one said that Jordan and Egypt obstructed Palestinian self determination from 48 to 67 when they controlled the West bank and Gaza respectively, and equity demands that Israel not be castigated for muffling Palestinian autonomy. There are so many issues re Israel and Gaza, and no time to discuss them. I refer you to a few of my articles on substack.
Also, the West has created within the West mechanisms to undermine the West and buttress the adored and fetishized third world. In most of our universities, DEI, affirmative action and the inculcation of a masochistic culture of white guilt is subverting thought and induing the West to make more and more concessions to the third world.
The Marxists of old had some good points: They called our attention to class war, and a revolution of the poor would better the living standards of poor whites as well as poor blacks. However, the retrograde false left of contemporary academia, for the most, only care about color – and other usually immutable conditions They seem to be aching for Rassenkrieg, or what the Germans called race war. I will support the Western verities and values over the muck and mayhem of the third world any day of the week.
What is the true reason Biden is running for President? To insure that Trump wins? The DNC could not find a viable candidate other than Biden? Totally insane and self-destructive. Looking at the political history of this nation - it is a sad, dishonest one. We are watching the swirling around the abyss as the country goes down the drain.
good one, Richard!