RE: Mark Steyn: Champion of European Imperialism
I think you missed Steyn's point, and, therefore, where he made his mistake in his central thesis. He wasn't invoking white European imperialism as a wonder of the modern world. Indeed, he was taking the Europeans to task for failing to deal effectively with Islam. All that was in order to lead up to an accolade for Bush being brave enough to try to fix the mess.
Yep, that's the problem with the world today, says Steyn and friends: all that wonderful freedom-spreading imperialism stopped before rich white men from Europe ruled the whole world.
Are you saying white Europeans should have left the African tribes to continue their genocidal wars unabated? But we don't have to theorize what happens when you leave the racist African tribes to their own devices. All we have to do is look at Zimbabwe and Rwanda. Those weren't white Europeans hacking children's heads off with machetes, Strother. Those weren't fat Italians splitting pregnant women open and then impaling them on stakes, Strother. Those weren't elitist Englishmen impregnating twelve and thirteen year old girls via rape in order to breed their race out of existence. Exactly what makes white European imperialism any worse than black African imperialism (other than the fact that attacking white Europeans is far more en vogue among one's liberal pals)?
Furthermore, what's the alternative? You whine about rich white men ruling the world, but does that mean you would have preferred rich black men or rich brown men to have done the job? Or is it that you have some unrealistic vision of holding hands and singing about how you'd like to buy the world a Coke or we are the world or some other brain-dead, ivory tower, kumbayah fantasy?
Yes, we're all living with how those tribes were split down the middle by arbitrary borders. No doubt about that.
That's the way the world is built, Strother. Sorry to burst your bubble, but the map of the world wasn't drawn out by committees of smiling bureaucrats with grandiose visions of cosmic justice and equality. Nearly all of the world's ills on a geographic scale can be traced to some well-meaning set of fools who thought they could right the injustices of their predecessors.
If you wanted to hit Steyn up on the weak point of his thesis, you should have pointed out the gigantic leap he made from a well-reasoned argument about events of the last 1500 years to accolades for Bush's bravery in trying to fix the mess. In fact, Bush is no more than yet another well-meaning fool who is tinkering in the geo-political soup once again. Our grandchildren will pay for his mistakes.
The problem is Bush and his neo-con cheering squad. The problem is the current set of politicians who believe they have a much clearer vision of cosmic rightness than their predecessors. The problem is with an opposition political force in this country that has gone so far off the deep end of degradation and degeneracy that they can no longer mount a reasoned defense against the adventurism of the neo-cons.
Save the leftist agit-prop for those who might believe it. The only thing you left out of the canned harangue was some blather about the patriarchal hegemony of males who have utterly botched the last millennium of history.
Yep, that's the problem with the world today, says Steyn and friends: all that wonderful freedom-spreading imperialism stopped before rich white men from Europe ruled the whole world.
Are you saying white Europeans should have left the African tribes to continue their genocidal wars unabated? But we don't have to theorize what happens when you leave the racist African tribes to their own devices. All we have to do is look at Zimbabwe and Rwanda. Those weren't white Europeans hacking children's heads off with machetes, Strother. Those weren't fat Italians splitting pregnant women open and then impaling them on stakes, Strother. Those weren't elitist Englishmen impregnating twelve and thirteen year old girls via rape in order to breed their race out of existence. Exactly what makes white European imperialism any worse than black African imperialism (other than the fact that attacking white Europeans is far more en vogue among one's liberal pals)?
Furthermore, what's the alternative? You whine about rich white men ruling the world, but does that mean you would have preferred rich black men or rich brown men to have done the job? Or is it that you have some unrealistic vision of holding hands and singing about how you'd like to buy the world a Coke or we are the world or some other brain-dead, ivory tower, kumbayah fantasy?
Yes, we're all living with how those tribes were split down the middle by arbitrary borders. No doubt about that.
That's the way the world is built, Strother. Sorry to burst your bubble, but the map of the world wasn't drawn out by committees of smiling bureaucrats with grandiose visions of cosmic justice and equality. Nearly all of the world's ills on a geographic scale can be traced to some well-meaning set of fools who thought they could right the injustices of their predecessors.
If you wanted to hit Steyn up on the weak point of his thesis, you should have pointed out the gigantic leap he made from a well-reasoned argument about events of the last 1500 years to accolades for Bush's bravery in trying to fix the mess. In fact, Bush is no more than yet another well-meaning fool who is tinkering in the geo-political soup once again. Our grandchildren will pay for his mistakes.
The problem is Bush and his neo-con cheering squad. The problem is the current set of politicians who believe they have a much clearer vision of cosmic rightness than their predecessors. The problem is with an opposition political force in this country that has gone so far off the deep end of degradation and degeneracy that they can no longer mount a reasoned defense against the adventurism of the neo-cons.
Save the leftist agit-prop for those who might believe it. The only thing you left out of the canned harangue was some blather about the patriarchal hegemony of males who have utterly botched the last millennium of history.
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