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| Victor Davis - American Zen - Finessing our supposed friends and enemies |
| 2005-07-01 |
| While the world debated whether an American guard at Guantanamo really flushed a Koran down a toilet, Robert Mugabe may have bulldozed the homes of 1.5 million Zimbabweans. Few seem to have cared. To do so would be a messy, complicated thing â lecturing a black third-world leader to stop tormenting his own poor; pleading with other African states not to allow the genesis of another Rwanda; and, probably, being embarrassed by someone who doesnât give a hoot what a Western elite liberal says. Mao, whose minions killed somewhere between 40 and 50 million, is still popular in China. That Communist country is deemed by many Western allies as less of a threat than the United States and its elected president, who routinely appears with a Hitler-moustache in European demonstrations. The new general rule: Global morality is established by the degree the United States can be blamed. Millions of lives lost, vast corruption, thousands of refugees â all that canât quite equate with a U.S. soldier showing insensitivity or an American detention center with mere doctors, ethnic food, and religious accommodations. All this is not mere theater anymore, but serious stuff, since we are at war with thousands of troops in harmâs way counting on our support. America should wake up to this near-religious hatred â unless it is so far gone itself that it really believes the arguments of silly university-press books about our own pathologies and pernicious âempire.â So how does the United States navigate nimbly between its weariness with the thankless role of a superpower and the dangers of a nostalgic isolationism? We need to find a sort of Zen-like philosophical balance that brings both some maturity to our pampered critics and psychic relief to ourselves, without endangering our own security or abandoning our true allies â while in the middle of a war and a polarized electorate here at home. Read the rest at link. Once again, Victor hits the nail on the head. |
| Posted by:mmurray821 |
| #5 In the words of that great political philosopher Arthur Fonzarelli - "exactamundo!" The Eurotrash, especially, have been on my personal excremental roster ever since the time right after 9/11 when they invoked Article 5 of the NATO Charter (the "attack on one = an attack on all" clause), then hemmed and hawed about whether or not that really meant they were going to help us militarily. Overrun with radical Muslims? Don't cry to us, guys...just make sure you cut down those shade trees on the Champs Elysees. I understand the Arabs prefer to march in the hot sun. The Germans getting a little Or maybe it'll be the Russians getting an appetite for more beachfront with western or southern exposures. Well, we have a little message for Vlad...go for the gusto, compadre. Just do everyone a favor and don't put up those ugly freaking cinderblock buildings on the Cote d'Azur, okay? If you need some development help, call Directory Assistance for NYC and just ask them to connect you with "The Donald". They'll know who you're talking about. Best of luck with the new property, Vlad...but ya need to remember just two little words and we'll get along fine. You listening? Okay - "Monroe Doctrine".Oh, and Europe? Don't complain. Lots of opportunities in serving your conquerors. Christ only knows, you've had enough practice over the years. |
| Posted by: Ricky bin Ricardo (Abu Babaloo) 2005-07-02 00:25 |
| #4 And Zen Voyager for an SUV. |
| Posted by: .zensane 2005-07-01 17:11 |
| #3 You know, dot Zen would be a purdy good name for a band. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2005-07-01 15:56 |
| #2 Once again, Victor hits the nail on the head We should call him The Hammer. |
| Posted by: 2b 2005-07-01 12:51 |
| #1 I know what he means. I have a Zen-like balance thingy going on, myownself. On one side of the razor blade is the knowledge that, sooner or later, we will have to begin throwing IslamoScreed out of America, as well as "moderating" it in the shithole dictatorships which sponsor, aid, and / or abet terrorism, Islam and the "ists" by another name. It's merely acknowledging what the Muzzies, themselves, say when they think we're not listening or that no translation is available. It's there in their "perfect" books for all to see and understand, but even more telling, the perfect confirmation is there for those not willingly blinded, it's their behavior across the globe. Where there's shit, well there's likely Islam. For the sophisticated "I live in the grey zone, and I'm damned proud of it!" fuckwits: Islam is the enemy of freedom. And damned proud of it, too. On the other is the knowledge that, sooner or later, we will have to begin offering compulsory wirehead connections to our native apologists, facilitators, and supporters of terrorism. You know who I mean? Perhaps this will make it clearer: The "I just can't bring myself to say: It's Them! It's the Fucking Muzzies! They want to bring down Western Civilization and erect a Global Caliphate, cuz that's precisely what their ideology (not religion) exists for." crowd. Cowardice, the inability to adjust one's personally preferred view to match reality is, well, it's just butt-ugly. But far worse is the obvious fact that it's goddamned dangerous, too. I think of it as the Immoderate Stupidity Watch. Plug in, bliss out, STFU. A new Timmy Leary kind of thingy. - Your Friend in Zen Hmmm, Islam and The Ists - catchy band name. |
| Posted by: .Zen Through A Realistic World-View - and Superior Firepower 2005-07-01 12:04 |