"When Europe orders all American troops out; when Japan claims our textbooks whitewash the Japanese forced internment or Hiroshima; when China cites unfair trade with the United States; when South Korea says get the hell off our DMZ; when India complains that we are dumping outsourced jobs on them; when Egypt, Jordan, and the Palestinians refuse cash aid; when Canada complains that we are not carrying our weight in collective North American defense; when the United Nations moves to Damascus; when the Arab Street seethes that we are pushing theocrats and autocrats down its throat; when Mexico builds a fence to keep us out; when Latin America proclaims a boycott of the culturally imperialistic Major Leagues..."Oddly enough, I'm not convinced of that which Hanson appears to be convinced of. This is, after all, a world gone mad.....where blatant hypocrisy and lies seem to stand as though they were truth. And Leftists all over this country join in such efforts, reminding us that WE are culpable and deserving of such retaliations.
Yes, I could see Mexico "building a wall" called an army - to combat our "racist border patrollers." Yes, I could see China accusing the U.S. of unfair trade...and blaming it on our monetary policy. Yes, I could see the Palis rejecting U.S. aid, while demanding a prominent role in the U.N. where U.S. money is freely spent and players abscond.
Can't Victor see that we already live in a parallel universe where right is wrong and wrong is right? Did he not this week see the Senate Minority Leader indignantly proclaim that Republicans are destroying time-tested Senate "tradition" vis-a-vis judicial nominations? And most of the world is upside down enough to believe such garbage. Time to wake up and smell the propaganda wars.
You are right about the parallel universe and surrealism around us. I don't think VDH would argue too much with you.
Its just today his polemics target some unchangeable truth: its impossible for a good honorable person acting on his principals to go through the life without making any enemies; and for some people we would prefer them to stay our enemies rather than embarrass us with their praise.