Christopher Stevens Feeds the Crocodile

Front Page Magazine ^ | September 14, 2012 | Daniel Greenfield

[Walrus]

In 19th century literature, this was the concept of “the noble savage.”

Never mind the syphilis, the scalpings and the cannibalism; these people are pure and untainted by our depraved culture. Aren’t they wonderful? More to the point, aren’t *I* even more wonderful to discern this?

[P-Marlowe]

Well at least he died doing what he loved to do. We can all take comfort in that.

[kenavi]

Yes, the cables will reveal the truth.

[wesagain]

"Does it need men who give up the hopes and dreams of their country to take on the dreams of their enemies without ever realizing where the fatal road of those dreams leads? "

Here's the fatal mistake for decent people everywhere......believing any other human culture or religious community can peacefully coexist with Islam. Has it ever happened anywhere in the world? In their febble brains they believe they have the right to determine the faith path of every other human being on the earth. That is repugnant.

[Sister_T]

*Bump!*

[sitetest]

Islam delenda est.

[SamuraiScot]

what Bruckner calls “the enchanting music of departure.” Its siren call is seductive but also supremely mendacious. Indeed, the messy reality of the primitive world—its squalor and poverty, its penchant for cannibalism, slavery, gratuitous cruelty, and superstition—are carefully edited out of the picture.

Brilliant. But he left out sodomy.

[txrangerette]

Seems to me there’s a domestic lesson to be learned. Back here in America, we’re being told it’s just HORRIBLE to offend Islam. This, in the throes of this man’s unspeakable fate. Now that millions of Muslims live in America, we have a domestic problem as well, do we not?

What has happened is that the power of Liberalism to re-make society from the top down is on full parade. It isn’t a reflection of the American people. It’s a reflection of the mind of Liberals and their hands on the levers of power to make it happen. The same mindset that led to HIS death is behind Moochelle’s drive to control what we can choose to eat.

Internal contradictions in what Liberals believe, ABOUND. They tout gay marriage and women’s and sexual “liberation”” and they are very HOLLYWOOD in their morals (which means almost no morals at all). Yet tell us we must accommodate to a religion that does “honor killings” of females and follows Sharia Law.

When they are in charge, NOTHING makes sense.

I don’t know about you, but in addition to America being in peril, another thing that animates my reaction to them is, I have always hated things that MAKE NO SENSE.

I was raised to make sense of things and came of age when American society - imperfectly of course - did!

[donozark]

General George Patton once said,”If you’re nice to a skunk, he won’t piss on you. As often.”

[Little Ray]

Stevens helped a bunch of savages overthrow the government that kept them in check. There wasn’t much to like about Daffy, but he was still better than what replaced him. He died a horrible death for his misplaced idealism.

I DO mourn the two marines and the tech that the scum murdered, though, and for them I’d raze Benghazi and Tripoli.

[livius]

Excellent piece. And your comment about Rousseauian Third Worldism is right on target. Stevens was a less militaristic version of T.E. Lawrence or any of the other civilized, genteelly brought up, well educated young men of the West who fell in love with the exotic and for some reason couldn’t understand that the very things they liked and projected on these hostile cultures actually came from their own Western cultural heritage. Islamic and all Third World cultures possess only tribal values; the west, thanks to the cumulative influences of Greco-Roman thought, Judaism and Christianity, focus on human values and the values of individuals in a community, rather than the savage anonymous “values” of a tribe.

That said, however, I still feel rather badly for all thse foolish people when they meet up with the brutal Third World or Muslim reality. The biggest failure here is not that of the sad, foolish Stevens, but of our US government, which is supposed to protect and promote US interests (including our legal and governmental system) abroad and instead has devoted itself to turning into one large-scale, institutional Stevens.

Dinesh D’Souza was absolutely correct about Obama, the ultimate Third Worldist.

[alley cat]

I don’t know about you, but in addition to America being in peril, another thing that animates my reaction to them is, I have always hated things that MAKE NO SENSE.

I have always hated that also. But that is part of their power. You truly have power over people when you can get them to consider, tolerate, and eventually parrot things that MAKE NO SENSE. Ultimate submission.

[hal ogen]

This is an example of where ALL liberal policies lead...death by idealism. LIBs experience nan unfortunate suicidal mix of narcissism and LIB idealism that blinds them to their own desire to be dead. Self-loathing and self-worthlessness are very difficult to accept. It is easier to remain in a state of delusion and righteous idealism.

[informavoracious]

I am not sure they picked on him because just because he was Stevens. I think they picked on him because he was in a vulnerable location and easy to get to.

[kenavi]

Nice reference!

If Christopher Stevens was a "useful idiot", then it appears he was a useful idiot to our interests as well. One of the ex-SEALs killed in the same attack as Stevens, Glen Doherty, was part of a cohort working in Libya finding and destroying shoulder-fired rocket launchers. Who better than an American who had "gone native" to point them in the right direction?

Gaddafi's and Assad's regimes killed Americans, and would do so again when in a position to do so. It is strange to see arguments here that we shouldn't lift a finger to get rid of them.

[supremedoctrine]

BTT

[nuconvert]

“I am not sure they picked on him because just because he was Stevens. I think they picked on him because he was in a vulnerable location and easy to get to.”

Similar to the questions I still have.....was this a planned trip of Stevens’ that Libyan security knew about in advance? Someone (or more than one) in Libyan security betrayed him. Was it before he got there, or just after?
Was the original target of the attack the embassy or was it specifically to get Stevens?

[Vaquero]

self explanatory

[left that other site]

Yes. I agree with you. The passion for “Otherness” has been a conceit of the White Western Culture for well over a century. In Gilbert & Sullivan’s “THE MIKADO” Koko the Executioner sings of this type as being one who “would not be missed”:

“The idiot who praises
with enthusiastic tone,
All centuries but this,
And every country but his OWN.”

[paul51]

this article should be a good wake up call for our naive state department and administration