So cute! A pint-sized jihadist in Sydney Australia exercising his right of free speech to call for the beheading of those who also exercise the right of free speech. Tiger parenting, Islamic style.
Obama and his State Department grovel and apologize to a bunch of murderous barbarians. But Seraphic Secret and most sane people—this excludes Western progressives who enable jihadists everywhere—understand that the Muslim world is dysfunctional, intolerant, anti-Jewish, anti-Christian, anti-American and anti-Modern.
President Bush believed that democracy and free elections would cure the ills of the Muslim world.
He was wrong.
President Obama believes that endless apologies for perceived American crimes will bring unicorns of peace and understanding to the Muslim world.
He too is wrong.
Seraphic Secret believes that we should disengage from the Muslim world, except for an occasional bombing run to kill active jihadists and to keep their fingers off a nuclear trigger. Further, America should cut off all foreign aid to these ungrateful, ignorant tribes and allow them to sink back into the sludge from whence they have come. Believe me, their absence will never be noticed.
Pat Condell also has a few words for the savages in the streets.
Ariel Chaim Avrech, ZT'L, May His Righteous Memory be a Blessing.
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To paraphrase what Christopher Hitchens said often while he was alive, “Religion makes ordinary people oftentimes do extraordinarily stupid things.” And I might add that when it’s institutionalized in the form of religious oligarchy, it oftentimes does INSTITUTIONALLY and COLLECTIVELY stupid, inane, things.
Egypt and the Morsi government and all of Israel’s other “Arab Neighbor” governments certainly have
a long, long, path ahead of them on the road to even becoming a truly, substantially, Democratic
State, much less a Democratic Nation.
Israel is blessed with a far greater sociocultural state of modernity, but because of the history of
its founding, it does not yet have the complete substantive set of civil underpinnings expected
of a 21st Century Democratiic Nation. To be fair, no Country on Earth really DOES have a complete set. I would, however, refer to Israel more as a Democratic STATE than a Democratic NATION.
Can anyone on this Blog imagine the FHA in the U.S. approving a housing project loan for people
based solely on their religio-cultural beliefs???? Or not permitting civil marriage,(to say nothing
of gay marriage)
When does the sociocultural mindset of all people in what is now still called “The Middle
East” ever develop a enough of a collectively modern geopolitical identity so as to think
of themselves as “Southwest Asians” or “Northeast African” neighbors???? Why do all the
people in this region of the world still use this anachronistic British phrase “Middle East”
when they think of and refer to themselves collectively?????
Lots, and possibly most Americans, can easily identify as “North Americans”, because
we share enough of the modern sociocultural values with countries such as Canada so
as to render our National borders as no really big deal.
Sociocultural modernity and the technology of tomorrow are CLEARLY the only
path both to peace in the region, and the world.
And when that inevitable path is taken, walls and National borders will be antiquated
a notion as a covered wagon carrying a load now is.
Ask yourselves why people still need to have to stick wads of paper into the Wailing
Wall, when the whole world is going PAPERLESS!!!!
My sadness in seeing the ” lesser deluded” elements of the “Middle East” struggling to have
to deal with its “greater deluded” is extreme.
It’s time to give up what remains of our religiocultural delusions.
That’s the only way we “chickens” get to cross the road, and get to the other side.
And there’s no one else on this planet, but us chickens.
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To be fair to Bush, what he claimed was that tyrannies propped up by our governments would both foster resentment and make us scapegoats for the resultant anger. I still believe he was right that it is better for us that people have an appalling government because they chose it, not because we chose it. Long-term, this should increase their tendency to blame themselves and each other. Which of course makes Obama’s decision to back one side over another in someone else’s civil war particularly stupid.
I think the Arab Spring was a valuable process — it is good both for people and for tyrants to see that tyrannies may be overthrown. I do find it difficult to understand why so many people are so enamoured of the awful thugs who have grabbed power, rather than the process that enabled them to gain power.
Our own path to decent government took hundreds of years: Oliver Cromwell was certainly, with the benefit of distant hindsight, a Good Thing for the English-speaking world, but I wouldn’t want to have lived when he was actually in power. Ditto King John, who had a wonderfully positive effect on our development simply by being probably the worst king we ever had. I am not optimistic that the Arab world will manage things any faster than we did, but I do still think that overthrowing Gaddafi and Mubarak was a step in the right direction, and I hope the Syrian rebels can overthrow Assad, no matter how appalling they may themselves then turn out to be. If we’re going to have appalling tyrannies either way, I’d much rather they rule over a people with clear memories of how easy it was to overthrow the last lot than a cowed populace who don’t believe change is possible.
And yes, I am of course aware that none of us will long enough to see whether I’m right or not. But hey.
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Wise thoughts, Squander. Whether in hope or otherwise, but I believe the Arab Enlightenment might well have begun on 11 September 2001.
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Rather, mandatory re-education should be required as part of the price for our aid.”
Because the Islamic world has shown itself so receptive to education over the past millenia plus, right?
You can lead a horse to water, but you cannot make him drink
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Off topic, but for those of you who are fasting on Yom Kippur, I wish you all an easy one. May you be inscribed for a good and sweet year.
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Robert,
As a recovering Neocon, I think (hope!) we have learned that democracy, in and of itself, is not an unmitigated a force for good. The problem is that they do not want what we want.
Until they want what we want, democracy simply gives them a Western-approved route to do things we do not like, like stoning homosexuals, forbidding women to vote or drive, and lobbing missiles at Israel every time they need to distract their huddled masses.
Our restraint is seen as weakness. I wonder if, had the Marine guards shot the first few protestors who attempted to invade soverign US territory by scaling the walls of the Cairo Embassy, Ambassador Stevens would have been touched.
Best,
Virgil
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The riots in Sydney did, however, bring forth condemnation from local imams, the first time they’ve ever spoken out against their own. Maybe Islam will eventually get its own Enlightenment.
Failing that, develop a bomb that will turn them all into Jews, except for the craziest 1% because it’d be neat to seem them freak out when they wake up one morning and find themselves surrounded by guys named Moshe, Levi and Yoram.
(Written in Hue, Vietnam)
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I am not so sure that disengagement makes sense. Rather, mandatory re-education should be required as part of the price for our aid.
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I agree. One problem with disengagement is that it allows the ruskies or the Chinese to walk in. I’m not sure what the right answer is. the chicoms and ruskies love a vacuum that we create even if it also dangerous for them in the long run. Anything to pokes finger in our eye.
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“Rather, mandatory re-education should be required as part of the price for our aid.”
Because the Islamic world has shown itself so receptive to education over the past millenia plus, right?
It is ironic, because it was Muslim scholars who saved much of what we know about ancient Greece and Rome from disappearing in the dark ages. It has become a very different planet since then.
Regards,
Virgil
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No, re-education as a tool of power. We hold thaat power. Miliitarily and intellectually. This is not intended to be part of a populairty contest or the use of soft power. This is power as practiced by that great tactition and philsopher, Niccolo Machiavelli. A good man much maligned by so-called history.
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“No, re-education as a tool of power. We hold thaat power. ”
Only if we are willing to wield it. And the way we design our ROE (both parties, incidentally, since neither has combat veterans working for it in significant numbers) shows that we are incapable of wielding power intelligently.
Let the Chinese and Russians enjoy their new friends and let’s start drilling for petroleum and natural gas. We can export our excess to our friends and push the price into the basement.
Regards,
Virgil
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“This is power as practiced by that great tactition and philsopher, Niccolo Machiavelli. A good man much maligned by so-called history.”
Maligned by the people who haven’t understood (or read) him. But there are few in power who have read him. Kissinger gets sold to us as “Machiavellian,” but he seemed kind of weak and naive to me.
Regards,
Virgil
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Maajor Virgil:
My wife studied Niccolo at University and thought he was a great man who suffered considerably. The so-called smart people that we travelled with, and who had never read his work, or for that matter much about him beyond the bumper sticker stage, were in disagreement. The devil with them. Must be part o f the CNN-Wolf Blitzer crowd. And, I do despise ole Wolfie.
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It’s not often pointed out, but these folks already control nuclear weapons in Pakistan.
Exciting times, what?
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