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a un mandate and they lied to their electorate regarding the intelligence gerhard schroeder it s with great delight that i learned of saddam hussein s capture i congratulate you on this successful operation saddam hussein caused horrible suffering to his people and the region i hope the capture will help the international community s effort to rebuild and stabilise iraq roarke london aside from the questionable justifications for going into iraq now saddam is captured he must be seen to be tried in a completely fair and open manner with full cooperation from muslim countries and the un for his horrendous endless catalogue of base atrocities against the swathes of helpless humanity that he viciously terrorised with his foul offspring including the northern kurds his own people kuwaitis and the iranians for war crimes and also israel for the firing of scuds in 1991 anything that smacks of a show trial by the us will work in favour of this monstrous product of human shame john kerry this is a great opportunity for the united states to get it right but i also know that if we had done this with a sufficient number of troops if we had done this in a globalized way if we had brought more people to the table we might have caught saddam hussein sooner fox news sunday link comment 12 13 2003 the reality dysfunction steven den beste has posted a rant about the familiar absence of objectivity from the likes of human rights watch and amnesty international the particular instance he commented on is the just released human rights watch report on the war in iraq you know the drill they report that us has committed so many war crimes and human rights violations while giving short shrift to actually evil countries like saddam controlled iraq den beste came up with five reasons why he thinks this is so and i largely agree but the third reason is what he calls compassionate racism and he quotes a post of his from two years ago shortly after 9 11 the philosophic justification for the root causes argument that we ve heard so much about is the idea that the people who attacked us were motivated by what we ourselves had done to them earlier but it goes deeper than that if we are responsible then they cannot be and that can only be because they are not capable of being responsible they are not truly adults they are children or beasts who respond to conditions in predictable ways we do not hold children to the same standard of responsibility as we hold adults and these racists don t hold the people of the world to those standards either if by our acts we brought this tragedy upon ourselves then had we acted differently we would not have which means that we have a paternalistic obligation to control how everyone else in the world behaves through our acts towards them they will merely react to us all responsibility is here we are the only moral thinking people on earth and thus the only ones who can sin if we can only bring ourselves to be sufficiently kind and generous to them then they will live good lives they are innocent they cannot know sin for they are not sufficiently sophisticated to do so they are less than we are this is deeply loving and compassionate chauvinistic contempt and he concludes even if saddam and his government committed massive atrocities wogs like him aren t expected to live up to the same standards as real humans do den beste does not provide a reason why leftists tend towards chauvinistic contempt or in the more common formulation the soft bigotry of low expectations which i suggest is synonymous i think i have some insight on this matter back in january i posted from multiculturalism to anti americanism in six easy steps please read it if you haven t but if you can t be bothered here are the six steps 1 we cannot judge other cultures 2 therefore all cultures are equally good 3 if another society is seen to have problems it cannot be because of the local culture 4 therefore the problem must have an external origin 5 we can judge western culture and it obviously has many problems 6 therefore if another society is shown to have problems it must be because of western culture you re really missing out if you don t read it but anyway it s multiculturalism that explains why the us must be responsible for what goes on in the world and why others cannot be i m not suggesting that the six steps above are a conscious process for the left but when a person has a mindset that shies away from criticizing the other who are we to judge whether it s with an idea towards promoting equality and diversity or more darkly chomsky s reticence in criticizing america s foes one will eventually arrive at that place where all criticism finds its proper target in the us one closely related aspect which i don t get into in six easy steps but is there right next door is the fact that taking a non judgmental view of other cultures reduces them all to something like skinner s black box b f skinner was the father of behaviorism a school of thought in the science of psychology this way of looking at living things says that we can only know measure stimulus and a response what goes on inside an organism that turns a received stimulus into a given response should be treated like a black box that is it s unknowable unmeasurable the point was that anything we think we know about what goes on inside an organism s mind is pure theory and largely untestable returning to the realm of geopolitics the analogous thought says that if you put this us action in stimulus you ll get this foreign response out nothing else is measurable because we have no way to measure a foreign culture or foreign politics this is not only artificially simplistic but it accords volition only to the us others are unthinking victims people who can only react and never act they are not fully human and are not moral actors if a million muslims are now supportive of fascist ideals it can only be because of policies decided here and therefore the blame belongs here there are no decisions or choices to be made there no culture that informs them no political thought that guides them no leaders that lead them they exist only as objects that respond to us stimuli that is the logical outcome of applied multiculturalism and that is the reason why the left cannot properly assess reality it s the root cause of the left s tendency to assign minimal responsibility to the other and to blame the us first you can see examples of this thinking in the papers and on the news every day link comment 12 06 2003 leftists and islamists will the left ultimately end up being consumed by islamism when i first read about it the idea of a coalition between the hard left and islamism seemed as outrageous to me as cooperation between saddam and al qaeda seems to anti war types i was probably being overly generous to the left i was aware that communists of various stripes were behind the iraqi war protests and that they met up there with islamists and those pushing anti judaism but i didn t think it likely that the hard left would voluntarily put aside its radical egalitarianism and secularism and find common cause with a fascist religous movement from the excellent belmont club back in september the hollowing out of the left the death of its bolshevik core is one of the great unwritten stories of the late twentieth century the decline of the cadre of professional revolutionaries at its center was simultaneously matched by the inrush from the periphery of the network of sympathizers fellow travelers and useful fools which it once adopted as protective coloration and the corpse of the left has already been twitched aside by islam which refers to it only in the past tense all that remains in its path is the united states of america behind whom the feeble stragglers from marxism s golden age shelter still resentful still self important and still contemptible at the time i didn t really buy it i didn t doubt that the left was essentially empty of ideas the wistful daydreaming on the left for some alternative to capitalism that hasn t already been discredited as voiced by katrina vanden heuvel for instance demonstrated that to my satisfaction but i did doubt that any on the left woud be tempted to fill this void with islamism and its overt fascism a few days ago however came this account of the european social forum which met in paris last week by christopher caldwell writing in the weekly standard via sullivan but the eu is one of the world s institutions that appears the most tottering confused and unsure of itself and it may be ripe for hijacking particularly now that the social forum movement has linked up with a force that has all the energy and clarity of purpose that it lacks a force that is not boring or programmatic at all islam this linkage takes many forms muslims were hugely overrepresented among the social forum s delegates they even comprised a large chunk perhaps a majority of the american speakers perhaps this is unsurprising given the role played in this radical ideology by the american occupation of iraq universally opposed and palestinian terror against israel almost universally supported here s belmont club again on the big event yet the admission of ramadan into the social forum at first a mere gesture of leftist solidarity towards islam showed instead how far the equilibrium between them had shifted ramadan far from acting the part of the token ayatollah swiftly proved he had the power to rearrange the agenda of the leftist forum itself the picture being drawn is that a lost or dying movement is trying to draw energy from a rising movement some on the left think they can use the power of islamist anger and channel it to their own ends that it may be the islamists who have the strength to drive the agenda because of their greater confidence and ruthlessness seems not to be a primary concern i am reminded of how german communists were taken advantage of by the nazis in their rise to power here s leftist writer george monbiot writing about the emptiness at the center of the left in a guardian forum though he wouldn t characterize it that way i haven t spelt out a position on this simply pointed to one of the problems we encounter in trying to formulate an anti capitalist ideology and i have not given up the search for an answer i m just aware that the search and the answer are gravely constrained by a pretty intractable reality he s knows what he s against but monbiot has only a vague notion about what he s for but don t worry he s still searching meanwhile in the intro to that forum the guardian writes of monbiot via lgf as well as involvement in the world and european social forums monbiot is currently in discussions with a coalition of stop the war george galloway trades unions the muslim association of britain and others on forming a parliamentary opposition to the mainstream political parties the muslim association of britain is an offshoot of egypt s notorious muslim brotherhood i guess the question is how much of the answer that monbiot and others like him are searching for will be provided by islamism or does monbiot think that the left can use islamism s energy at no cost a uk website called chartist dedicated to people active in radical politics posted an article apparently back in may about this the writer is trying to convince the left to put aside any worries they may have about islamists here s the intro a different coalition has emerged on the streets of britain in opposition to the iraq war but adam riaz khan argues that the left and muslims must learn to build on their shared anti capitalism khan writes it is important that progressive left wing forces capitalise on the rise in political consciousness of the muslim community and in particular the muslim youth who flooded the streets of east london on the day that war with iraq began stop the war coalition has indeed realised that the time has come for revolutionary purist attitudes to be abandoned note the appeal to islamism s vitality and youth in order to tap into that energy so lacking on the left the purist attitudes that the left needs to abandon presumbaly include objections to religous totalitarianism of course the left is no stranger to totalitarianism but they tend to prefer the leftist version of it but to defeat capitalism they ll work with people who favor the theocratic version and hope for the best afterwards what will come of all this i couldn t possibly say but it is a perfect demonstration of blair s law in action the ongoing process by which the world s multiple idiocies are becoming one giant useless force link comment 12 05 2003 the scandal deepens we have all discovered to our horror that the turkey bush held was not actually served to the troops and may not even have been edible but this scandal gets even worse you know that platter of perfect desserts that the waiter brings around after the entree i ve learned from a trusted source that none of those is the dessert that you ll get if you order one it s shameful but true folks link comment 12 05 2003 geek post thanks be to the prophets or wormhole aliens depending on one s point of view and the shapeshifters at amazon com the seventh and sadly last season of deep space nine arrived at the homestead yesterday ahh every episode every line every frame and it s finally mine all mine after the the excitement died down i realized geez i ve spent 700 on star trek this year but the cases look really cool all lined up on the shelf and by the way ds9 is the best of all treks it s not even close link comment 12 04 2003 funerals as a weapon thereâ s lots of talk on the net about the complaints that president bush hasn t attended any funerals for military personnel killed in iraq charles krauthammer and andrew sullivan have commented on the very appropriate reasons why bush has not done so john cole looks at the history of presidents attending such funerals and finds that there isn t much of one krauthammer says of the ba athist islamist mix in iraq that they have only one way of winning by making u s casualties so painful that america decides to give up and go home unfortunately many on the hard left have the same immediate goal as the ba athists and islamists they want the u s to give up and go home perhaps most of them do not wish for an increase in u s casualties though there are definitely some who do but they are quite willing to use what deaths there are to further their goals it is not political or electoral damage to bush that they are primarily after though they ll take that if they can get it but rather u s failure in iraq and like the ba athists and islamists they believe u s deaths can deliver this to amplify the effects of these deaths they need the media the media in turn is always hungry for new pictures and new controversies to get these pictures many in the media left complained about the ban on taking pictures 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