Posted on 09/17/2007 7:55:08 AM PDT by .cnI redruM
From about 1989 to 1992 we pretty much figured that we had it made. The Iron Curtain fell, peace was breaking out all over. Francis Fukiyama rather unilaterally claimed victory for Liberal Democracy in his instant classic The End of History and the Last Man. His primary thesis went as follows.
"What we may be witnessing is not just the end of the Cold War, or the passing of a particular period of post-war history, but the end of history as such: that is, the end point of mankind's ideological evolution and the universalization of Western liberal democracy as the final form of human government."
Ah, but there was this bloke Osama Bin Laden who just didn’t get the memo. They forgot to put his name on the “distro list” and he was probably out of the office training suicide bombers anyway. Osama’s unlimited bank account, inexhaustible tolerance for violent death, complete deracination and trenchant desire to live in a mythical past made him the perfect man to bring history back from the grave in which Fukiyama presumptively interred it.
Afghanistan was to Bin Laden what a remote Costa Rican Island was to John Hammond in Michael Crichton’s novel Jurassic Park. Here, away from the scrutiny of the outside world, Bin Laden built Al Qaeda while the grasshoppers played and the ants were ignored as neigh bobs now that history had ended. It was while the West slept through the 1990’s and dismantled its legions to finance social programs that Bin Laden sharpened his plans to reintroduce history.
As Al Qaeda trained for war, American children were trained for sensitivity. We were raising a generation of children who would grow up to be cocky-but-dumb. We expected to be considered “the indispensable nation,” but many of our leaders now lacked the courage to dispense with the business at hand.
Like the daffy and villainous stereotypical liberals in the Ayn Rand Novel Atlas Shrugged, many of our leading political figures now lack the courage to make tough political decisions and to unequivocally discriminate between right and wrong. Massachusetts Governor, Deval Patrick, exemplified the worst of this malady when spoke to commemorate the tragic events of 9-11.
Governor Patrick described 9-11 as "was a mean and nasty and bitter attack on the United States." He went on to suggest that the root cause of these attacks "was also a failure of human beings to understand each other, to learn to love each other." If only some genius in Hollywood would translate Barney the Dinosaur episodes into Arabic. We can love our way out of future 9-11 attacks.
Why do they hate us? How could they listen to Governor Patrick’s blather and NOT hate American culture?
No matter how badly this goes for AQI, Osama Bin Laden can’t surrender to a nation led by the likes of Deval Patrick. He couldn’t listen to that and admit to our moral superiority any more than he could walk out of his hideout and voluntarily castrate himself with a pair on pinking shears. With “leadership” like Deval Patrick, the United States of America is too weak and too corrupted a nation for Osama Bin Laden to morally surrender to.
We will not love our way out of future 9-11s. Understanding will not parry the bastard sword wielded by Conan the Destroyer. Statements like Deval Patrick will sicken Osama Bin Laden. We will exasperate our enemies into wanting to kill us that much faster.
When we show our enemies that we lack the fundamental will to live, they are happier than a navy man with shore leave and a paycheck. If we don’t really know to think of our own culture and our own traditions, Osama has an opinion which he’ll offer with a thermonuclear exclamation point. Contra the execrable Francis Fukayama, history just doesn’t die, it gets written by people who care enough to survive and who drive their lance through neck of people who can’t understand why we didn’t love one another more on 9-11.
Well, history has come back; red of tooth and fang. Like the big, hungry Tyrannosaurus Rex from Jurassic Park, it wants to eat the United States of America, the way the lawyer got munched off the porta-toilet in Steven Spielberg’s cinematic rendering Mr. Crichton’s novel. Deval Patrick commemorates the tragic events of 9-11 by suggesting that we make like Barney the Dinosaur and all love one another.
Patrick, and others of his disgusting ilk, almost deliberately doesn’t get it. His appeal to love not only doesn’t placate terrorists; it fills them with greater rage. Anyone who has ever hated and despised some rich, over-fed sissy-boy can immediately understand why American Liberals inspire Osama Bin Laden’s vomit reflex. Barney the Dinosaur has a niche in Jurassic Park. He makes good finger food.
I don't think they were stereotypical when the book was written.........
Life imitates art?
Liberals and Progressives love terrorists and dictators. Notice how they love Castro, and it is quite obvious that they want to love Osama and the loony President of Iran. Why? Because they love and crave power and the socialist state and if one of these can help them get that power, it fires up their imagination.
Todays Liberal/Progressive is tomorrows socialist. The only thing is Hillary, Obama and Edwards have progressed beyond that, they are "Take it from you for the common good" - old fashioned red communists and our MSM is going right along with them. How else could Omaba mention "Ethnic Cleansing" as good and the MSM not turn him into political Toast. Imagine a Republican saying "Ethnic Cleansing" was good, he would be laughed right out of the party. Not so with the Democrats and their stooges in the Main Stream Media.
Their brains are on drugs.
Great read and right on!
bttt
So it would see. Everyday, I read stories from Zimbabwe, Venezuela and even DC, that were predicted long ago by Ms. Rand..................
Nicely done.
Venezuela is like the first five................
Likewise, Ron Goldman’s death was “a failure of human beings to understand each other, to learn to love each other.”
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