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July 18, 2005
A Deep Psychological Need
When Victor Davis Hanson is on, he's really on. Check out his precise demolition of the left's rickety hootch of anti-war fantasy (via The Hobbesian Conservative).
VDH on the left's misplaced assumptions of cause and effect:
The jihadists are not bombing Chinese for either their godless secularism or suppression of Muslim minorities. Indeed, bin Laden harbored more hatred for an America that stopped the Balkan holocaust of Muslims than for Slobodan Milosevic who started it.
On the "root causes" of the left's non-reasonable positions:
These tenets [moral equivilism, utopian pacifism, and multiculturalism] in various forms are not merely found in the womb of the universities, but filter down into our popular culture, grade schools, and national political discourse — and make it hard to fight a war against stealthy enemies who proclaim constant and shifting grievances. If at times these doctrines are proven bankrupt by the evidence it matters little, because such beliefs are near religious in nature — a secular creed that will brook no empirical challenge.
These articles of faith apparently fill a deep psychological need for millions of Westerners, guilty over their privilege, free to do anything without constraints or repercussions, and convinced that their own culture has made them spectacularly rich and leisured only at the expense of others.
So it is not true to say that Western civilization is at war against Dark Age Islamism. Properly speaking, only about half of the West is involved, the shrinking segment that still sees human nature as unchanging and history as therefore replete with a rich heritage of tragic lessons.
A deep psychological need. Again, we run into the basic hypocrisy of the "progressives": jumping through hoops to attack the administration's forceful prosecution of the war on the jihadists in Afhanistan and Iraq while ignoring the massive expansion of basic human rights in those formerly repressed countries. And witnessing the "progressives'" tortured attempts to explain away the obvious would be painful if the spectacle was more uncommon. Alas, it isn't.
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