Saturday, 08 July 2006
VDH: The Subtexts of War
Contributed by Bill Faith

The Subtexts of War
Culture, oil, and reckless dissent
by Victor Davis Hanson

Throughout this war there are various truths generally recognized, but rarely voiced.

First, before 9/11 the Western hard right-wing allowed radical Islam a pass — and then afterwards the Left did worse. That fact helps to explain the strange exemption given radical Islam in the West even today.

In the 1980s some conservatives saw the jihadists in Afghanistan or the Wahhabis in the Gulf as valuable bulwarks against global Communism. On the Western domestic front, even extremist Muslims — in their embrace of family values and resentment against modernism — were considered bedrock conservatives. Supposedly, they shared the same understandable concern about Western “decadence,” such as promiscuity, homosexuality, crass popular culture, and family dissolution.

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Contributed by Bill Faith on July 8, 2006 at 09:51 AM in Bill Faith, Islamism Delenda Est | Permalink

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