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May 23, 2006
On The Evil Of The US, And The 9/11 "Attacks"
Charles Johnson at LGF has done his best to ruin my evening glass of wine by pointing up a staggeringly stupid and repellent article in the Times Online. Martin Samuel has a problem with scrap steel from the wreckage of the World Trade Center being used in the new warship USS New York.
No sooner had work begun on the New York when the Secretary of the Navy announced that sister ships were to be built called the USS Arlington, after the Pentagon site that was hit by terrorists, and the USS Somerset, the Pennsylvania county in which Flight 93 came down. The ships would commemorate the attacks, if that is the right word, which it is plainly not. Exactly what is being commemorated anyway? [...]In essence what is being commemorated here is failure; the failure of American foreign policy to protect fully the interests of its citizens or make their world a safer place. America came under attack because the actions of successive governments have made it the enemy to large swaths of humanity. Anti-Americanism is growing alarmingly because, since September 11, the world’s most powerful nation has continued to alienate and divide even its allies. While not excusing wicked acts committed by terrorists, it would be foolish to view the behaviour of terrorists as motiveless. If we regard terrorism as the work of madmen and unrelated to our relationship with their world, we learn nothing from history.
Emphases mine. Samuel's glib arrogance in questioning the use of the word "attacks" calls to mind a seven-year-old whose parents have emotionally abandoned him--such a child will often produce the most outrageous behavior solely for the purpose of provoking a reaction. Maybe in Samuel's world of insular European utopianism, the 9/11 attacks were merely protest performance art.
"Anti-Americanism is growing alarmingly..." Really? Examples, please. Just don't look in the "Arab street". Maybe Samuel's drinking buddies constitute an adequate sample size for a Times columnist.
"...because, since September 11, the world’s most powerful nation has continued to alienate and divide even its allies."
Once again, with feeling: moral correctness is not determined by popularity. If Samuel desires to kiss the arses of the jihadists who would destroy his freedom and his culture, then he is no ally of mine.
The sooner we alienate and divide ourselves from the likes of Martin Samuel, the better.
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