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Old June 6th 04, 06:26 PM
Grantland
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(TonyZ2001) wrote:

June 3, 2004

World Opinion Be Damned
America's attempts to appease "world opinion" are depraved and suicidal

By Alex Epstein

It is a testament to the perverse priorities of our politicians and
journalists that the biggest American outcry over Abu Ghraib has been not about
the gruesome decapitation of American Nicholas Berg by terrorists, but about
the fact that many Arabs and Europeans are mad at us.
"We are the most hated nation in the world," laments Ted Kennedy, "as a
result of this disastrous policy in the prisons."
The alleged solution to this alleged crisis of "world opinion" is to
show more deference toward the rest of the world. Otherwise, we are told, the
world's anger will bring more terrorist attacks and less "international
cooperation" against terrorism.
All of this evades one blatant truth: the hatred being heaped on
America over Abu Ghraib is undeserved. Throughout the Middle East,
torture—real torture, with electric drills and vats of acid—is official
policy and daily practice. Yet there are no worldwide condemnations of the
dictatorships that practice such atrocities—let alone the Arab-Islamic
culture that produces so many torturers. But when, during a war, a handful of
American prison guards subject a handful of Iraqi POWs to comparatively mild
humiliation—which the U.S. government denounces and promptly
investigates—"world opinion" proclaims itself offended and condemns America.
Abu Ghraib is just the latest example of the injustice of "world
opinion." Since September 11, the United States—the freest nation on
Earth—has been ceaselessly denounced for any step in the direction of
self-defense against terrorism, while terrorist regimes Iran, Syria, Saudi
Arabia, and the Palestinian Authority get a moral free pass.
So-called "world opinion" is not the unanimous and just consensus that
its seekers pretend. (Observe that the phrase never includes the many
pro-American foreigners, such as freedom-fighters in Iran.) It is the
irrational and unjust opinion of the world's worst people: the Islamists who
seek to subjugate the world to Islamic rule, the socialists and pacifists who
seek to subjugate U.S. sovereignty to U.N. rule, and the legions of "moderate"
followers who support or sympathize with these goals. These people oppose us
not because of any legitimate grievances against America, but because they are
steeped in irrational doctrines like Islamic fundamentalism, collectivism, and
pacifism—which lead them to oppose and resent American freedom and
individualism, and our resulting wealth and power.
The proper response to the anti-American voicers of "world opinion" is
to identify them as our ideological and political enemies—and dispense
justice accordingly. In the case of our militant enemies, we must kill and
demoralize them—especially the Arab and Islamic regimes that support
terrorism and fuel the Islamist movement; as for the rest, we must politically
ignore them and intellectually discredit them, while proudly arguing for the
superiority of Americanism. Such a policy would make us safe, expose
anti-Americanism as irrational and immoral, and embolden the world's best
elements to support our ideals and emulate our ways.
President Bush, like most politicians and intellectuals, has taken the
opposite approach to "world opinion": he has tried to appease it. Instead of
identifying anti-American Muslims as ideological enemies to be discredited, he
has appealed to their sensibilities and met their demands—e.g., sacrificing
American soldiers to save Iraqi civilians and mosques, and striving to make the
Iraqi occupation not look "too American." Instead of seeking to crush the
Islamists by defeating the causes they fight for—such as Islamic world
domination and the destruction of Israel—he has appeased those causes,
declaring Islam a "great religion" and rewarding the Palestinian terrorist
Jihad with a promised Palestinian state. Instead of destroying the terrorist
regimes that wage war against the West—including Iran, Syria, Saudi Arabia,
and the Palestinian Authority—he has sought their "cooperation" and even cast
some as "coalition partners."
Such measures have taught the enemies they appease a deadly lesson:
anti-Americanism pays. "Denounce and oppose America," they have learned, "no
matter how irrationally and hypocritically, and American leaders will praise
your ideals and meet your demands." "Attack America via terrorist proxy,"
terrorist states and movements have been taught, "and America will neither
blame you nor destroy you, but redouble its efforts to buy your love." Is it
any wonder that anti-Americanism is gaining prominence, and that the "War on
Terrorism" has no end in sight?
Every attempt to appease "world opinion" preserves, promotes, and
emboldens our enemies. Every concession to angry Muslim mobs, every
denunciation of Israel, every consultation with Prince Bandar or dictator Assad
gives hope to the Islamist cause. Every day we allow terrorist regimes to exist
gives their minions time to execute the next September 11. America needs honest
leadership with the courage to identify and defeat our enemies—world opinion
be damned.


Yiddish Bolshevism from the crawling traitors of the neo-Con. Just
like Soviet Russia. Isolate and bankrupt the slave state, while
belligerently threatening the world. Mesmerize the slave population
with terror and propaganda.

Death to these traitors! Death!

Grantland
"Unbending intent and impeccability of spirit"

 




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