Civilization Envy

National Review Online ^

[PatrickHenry]

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[SarahW]

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[AgThorn]

BUMP!!! Great truth in this article!!!

[TheFilter]

Thanks, this is a really good piece.

[PatrickHenry]

Another bump.

[Senator Pardek]

Islamic culture, politics, and religion — which are far more conjoined than they are in the West — cannot reconcile with the fact that the West, led by America, is the lead dog on the sled of humanity.

The demons claim that they are fighting "Western decadence".

Perhaps we should oblige them after the bombs fall, and not infect their sacred culture with such decadent, materialist items like bandages and antibiotics, created in the Sewer of Capitalism.

[Senator Pardek]

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[Bob Burnett]

Excellent. Another bump

[Chuckster]

....the central source of animus from the Arab world is, quite simply, envy.

Yup. I've believed this for a long time. As one of the mechanics at the local Harley shop said, they hate us because "We're big, we're powerful, we're rich, we're good looking and we get all the girls"

It's the equivalent of the highschool freshman mascot slashing the tires of the varsity quarterback's car. That is, same motivation, just as childish but of course deadly.

[sinkspur]

Yea.

I see where Bush just released aid money for Afghan refugees.

We're a decadent bunch, we are.

[Askel5]

I'd be interested to know how our aid money for refugees stacks up against the monies we invested in Osama during the Soviet invasion.

[sinkspur]

I'd be interested to know how our aid money for refugees stacks up against the monies we invested in Osama during the Soviet invasion.

Who cares?

Osama's going to be just as dead as the Soviet Union, in very short order.

[Askel5]

Yeah right.

We'll see about that.

[Askel5]

as dead as the Soviet Union

That dead, eh?

God help us.

[Dumb_Ox]

The Islamic world has a self-esteem problem... This is the sort of thing individuals and even whole societies do when they feel they aren't getting the respect they deserve.

What is this? Oprah does foreign affairs analysis?

Depicting the terrorist supporters in the Islamic world as children in need of self-esteem classes may make for good war propaganda in this therapeutic age, but we'd be fools to believe it.

[Senator Pardek]

Not nearly as much as we "invested" in the Soviets in the early '40s, and look what we got from that.

Oh yeah, don't tell me - WWII was an "Unjust War".

My favorite mixed metaphor is as follows: "Monday morning quaterbacks always have 20/20 vision".

[MrBambaLaMamba]

We also get to enjoy all those delicious pork products.

A decadent woof.

[Askel5]

Not nearly as much as we "invested" in the Soviets in the early '40s, and look what we got from that

What did we get from that? I'm curious.

[Senator Pardek]

Well, we teamed up with those who we knew were bad guys (USSR/Bin Laden) to fight a more immediate threat (Nazis/USSR).

No serious person claims that we should not have fought with the Soviets against Germany because it made the Soviets, in the long run, stronger.