Tuesday, November 13, 2007

Guilt And Worthlessness


  1. War is capable of achieving liberation from the clutches of America.

  2. Victory over America is not only possible, but inevitable.

  3. Insurgencies against insurgencies can always be defeated.

  4. Terrorists can simply state their demands and we have no alternative to
    accede.

  5. Fighting America should never provoke it.

  6. Killing Americans does not turn them into martyrs.

  7. A suicide vest is a "poor man's F-16".

  8. Al-Qaeda, despite its outrages, is loved in the Islamic World

  9. September 11 happened before America invaded Iraq.

  10. We abandoned the Kurds and the Shi'ites to Saddam. It is our fault.

  11. The Holocaust is Europe's fault.

  12. America must remain engaged in the Middle East and support the regime
    there. This is the "adult" approach to fighting terrorism.

understanding why it is possible to form statements which
contradict individual myths yet remain consistent within the ideological
universe is this: the only essential myth it is necessary to accept is the guilt
and worthlessness of Western civilization.
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