Krauthammer: The Enemy Is Not Islam. It Is Nihilism

The Weekly Standard ^ | 10/22/2001 | Charles Krauthammer

[1rudeboy]

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[FReethesheeples]

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[jlogajan]

He's wrong, of course. It might look like Nihilism, but it really is Islam. Sorry.

[mcurb]

The Nihilists were also out to get the Big Lebowski's money.

[StockAyatollah]

This blows the isolationist/pacificist/Buchananite argument out of the water. It does not matter to the enemy what US foreign policy has been or should be. They simply want to destroy us. Therefore we must destroy them first.

[onyx]

Yep. Islam is a cult of death and destruction with tens of millions of followers. We see them, we hear them, and the rest of the Muslims remain silent, thus giving their tacit approval.

[Migraine]

Fairly definitive, but the only real nihilism in this article (as I have come to know the term) is in Charles' refusal to state the issues in terms of good vs. evil. That makes him nihilistic insofar as the term includes the abnegation of right and wrong values.

No, what we are seeing in Bin Laden and his ilk can all be justified within Islam itself when Islam really wants to show its upraised rear end to the world. The Islamic world is coalescing around this guy as though he were the Makhdi. More and more of them are voicing their allegiance to him and their belief in his ability to triumph. Islam, like Nazism and Communism before it, dooms adherents to some rather fatuous and fanatical flights of fancy.

[InterceptPoint]

This blows the isolationist/pacificist/Buchananite argument out of the water.

Sure does. We haven't heard much from old Pat lately. Last time I looked up he was talking up that tired old "we need to understand what motivates these people" line. Maybe he figured out that at least 92% of the American public wasn't going to buy it. Good riddance as far as I'm concerned. But I'm sure he will be back.

[RobbyS]

Traditional Islam, through a long process of dialectics, csame to terms with the world. But these "reformers" turn their back on history and that tradition, and try to fit the incomprehendable word of God into their little minds. No wonder they are enraged.

[madrussian]

Neocon Krauthammer is desperate for a new tack to inspire the masses to go to a war. His and his neocon buddies' agenda is transparent -- America must fight Israel's war.

[Diddle E. Squat]

Kinda reminds me of Beneath the Planet of the Apes(the eggheads with the nuke).

[madrussian]

Escalating the war to include all the favorite Israel's enemies is what Israel's war is. America is in the war of retaliation.

[general_re]

The Nihilists were also out to get the Big Lebowski's money.

"Nihilists? Say what you will about National Socialism - at least it's an ethos..."

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[Greg Weston]

Total garbage on your part. Isolationism doesn't mean not punishing those that hit you first. It means you go around playing Globalist which is the policy you seem to favor which has been a miserable failure.

GO PAT GO! AMERICA FIRST!!!

[Travis McGee]

Don't be a simpleton. The jihadists did not destroy the Bamiyan Buddhas because of a Jewish connection. There is no Jewish connection in the South Philippines, Indonesia, Kashmir, Chechnya, Sudan, Algeria, Nigeria, etc etc.

The problem is the insane death cult called radical islam.

[Greg Weston]

"But I'm sure he will be back."

And you would be wise to heed Mr.Buchanan's words instead of twisting them. Your brand of foreign interventionism has been a terrible failure. Deal with it. GO PAT GO!!! AMERICA FIRST!!!

[Greg Weston]

Correction... It means you DON'T go around playing Globalist which is the policy many neocons seem to favor which has been a miserable failure. When are the neo CON frauds going to learn?