Another home run for Steyn. Move over, Barry Bonds...
1. The US were more multilateral. Sign on to Kyoto, pay some reparations, genuflect at Durban, and they won't slaughter our people.When,exactly, did Osama become an environmentalist or an advocate of reparations?
2. The US did not practise cultural hegemony. Imagine the howls from the Left if we attempted to solve this problem by ignoring a little thing called the 1st Amendment and tried by law to suppress or modify the various expressions of our culture. Has the Left checked with Babs Streisand on this one?
3. The disparity of wealth between the rich and poor nations did not exist. Osama bin Laden is not poor. He is a multimillionaire. Therefore, he did not direct the murder of thousands of people because of a resentment born of poverty. Further, the United States cannot eliminate the disparity of wealth. We have the most generous foreign aid programs in the world. We give billions each year to Egypt and the PLO. We were the most siginificant source of aid to Afghanistan. And still we were attacked.
4. World trade is to blame. Hear this, you heathens of the Left. The last time I checked, the dollar was falling in part because the United States has a very significant trade DEFICEIT. For those of you who have not taken an economics course, that means we import a lot more than we export. In other words, we are the principal customer for all those third world economies you bleat about. IT IS ILLOGICAL TO COMPLAIN ABOUT WORLD TRADE AND WEALTH DISPARITY AT THE SAME TIME. WORLD TRADE IS THE CURE FOR WEALTH DISPARITY.
No, as uncomfortable as it may be to the Left, we were not attacked because we failed to heed the "wisdom" of their various causes du jour. So they should immediately cease and desist from using our dead as political fodder.
Osama has told us why we are subject to attack:
1. Our success threatens to undermine the fealty of the Muslim world to his brand of Islam.
2. We support Arab regimes (i.e. Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, etc.) with which he disagrees.
3. We support Israel.
4. We "plunder," i.e. buy, Arab oil.
5. We are not Muslims who adhere to his version of Islam.
So, dear members of the Left, unless you are willing to abandon the Arab peoples to a barbarous fudamentalism, to see Israel pushed into the sea, to forgo the purchase of oil from the Middle East (with economic consequences so severe that even your student loans and professorships will not be secure), and perhaps even convert to Osama's form of Islam, get used to it. We have no choice but to find and destroy those who have attacked us.