Tuesday, September 07, 2004

Depravity

Did you see the pictures of the body bags laid out in Beslan? It takes a second. You think they are empty, then you realize they are filled with children.

How depraved do you have to be to shoot a fleeing child in the back? That is the only thing they have to fight with. Thier depraved indifference to thier own lives, to the lives of the people they kill, to the lives of the people they hide behind. We truely face an enemy whose only weapon is its own depravity.

No that is incomplete. The depravity of our own elites. The people who cite this depraved behavior as evidence that our enemies are victims. that is our enemy's real weapon. If it were not for the intellectuals of our own society that look at the murdered Russians, Jews, Americans and, increasingly, fellow Muslims and say, "look, you see what they have done? Surely they must have a terrible greivance against us to do such things." And then the inevitable search for things we can do for our murderers. that is the real source of our enemies' power. In the absence of opinion leaders that take the hatred of this brutal and backward civilization for us as evidence of our need to accomodate them our enemy would be as impotent as it is depraved.

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