A teeny tiny problem with The Dictatorship of the Intellectuals
Ralph Peters traces the Durbinesque denunciations of the US back to the failure of the USSR, and he is exactly correct.
From our ailing domestic left to overseas America haters, no one really cares about the fate of Mustapha the Murderer or Ahmed the Assassin. The lies told about Gitmo are meant to undercut U.S. foreign policy and embarrass America.
The Gitmo controversy is about many things, from jealousy of the United States and outrage that we refuse to fail, to residual anger that we won the Cold War and exploded the left’s great fantasy of a dictatorship of the intellectuals. But the one thing the protests aren’t about is human rights. Except, of course, as a means to slam the United States.
Torture? Who and when? Koran abuse? I’d rather be a Koran in Gitmo than a Bible in Saudi Arabia.
Intellectuals are not naturally democrats — many of them believe they are better than others because they are smarter. Indeed, many of them think they are smarter than God, which is proof enough for them that God does not exist. Ideas like Marxism are therefore very appealing to them for a couple of reasons: (a) human nature has to be reordered according to a theory of man, and they are the theorists; and (b) in a society where there is officially no God, they are, they reason, top dog on the great chain of being.
Islamism, for the Marxists now homeless after the fall of the USSR, is not really a destination, just a subway stop on their real goal of the abolition of the USA as it is — and its re-creation as a socialist workers’ secular paradise under the benevolent dictatorship of the intellectuals.
It’s such a pity that they don’t realize the most important thing of all: wherever their ideas are actually put into practice, they are the first ones rounded up to be taken out and shot.
June 16th, 2005 at 6:30 pm
Just like their seething hatred of Richard Nixon, the Left will never forgive America’s anti-Communism.
June 16th, 2005 at 10:16 pm
“It’s such a pity that they don’t realize the most important thing of all: wherever their ideas are actually put into practice, they are the first ones rounded up to be taken out and shot.”
Did this closing line initiate a totally irrational fleeting thought in anyone
else?