Liberal Elitism Causes and Encourages Terrorism

I know that we all miss Diplomad. Thank goodness we still have The Daily Demarche. Here they are upset at Spain and all those Useful Idiots who refuse to recognize Radical Islam and/or Terrorism as the true enemy of all civilization:

The Daily Demarche: On "Spain's 9/11": "I wonder if Ms. Richardson would want to move to a country within whose borders we have “contained” terrorism. I can’t think that many people would. I see in this preposterous statement nothing more than an admission that some countries and peoples are beyond saving, that the savages can’t handle any form of government other than the illiberal kind in whose bosom terrorism flourishes. In short, statements like these smack of the same old tired realism that is (sadly) the ultimate conceit of the academic caste and the European elites"

Lee Harris wrote a longish article a few years back, but it makes a good case for this idea. He also sees the same analogy that we do here between Liberalism and immaturity.

TCS: Tech Central Station - Our World-Historical Gamble: "The modern liberal world system has permitted the growth of power in the hands of those who have not had to cope with reality in order to acquire this power: it has simply been given to them, out of the sense of fair play prevalent among Western liberal societies. Iraq was paid for its oil, which in return paid for its weapons - and both were produced by us, to be used against us. But this, tragically, has had the unintended consequence of diminishing the value of the sense of the realistic in the eyes of those who have thus acquired their power and wealth - a fact just as much in evidence in the behavior of Saudi Arabia as in that of Iraq. It is the re-enactment, on a world-historical scale, of what has been done by many well-meaning Americans in the case of their own children - by giving them so much, we have robbed them of that indispensable sense of the realistic that can only be achieved by the head-on collisions with the irremovable object called the real world. We have nourished their fantasies, instead of forcing them to face the facts of life. And in doing so, we have done no one any service - least of all, the hapless multitude of impoverished human beings who have themselves derived no benefit whatsoever from the West's fair play, and whose children's lives will continue to be wasted in the counter-productive pursuit of their leaders' delusional dreams. "

Remember those obnoxious student protests against military recruiting on college campuses? Well, there at least four people at Berkeley who find those morons childish too:

Res Ipsa Loquitur: "They don't want the government to recruit on campus, they just want to line up at the feeding trough like the little piglets they are and take federal money without all of the obligations that come with it.

I know that student protesters think that they are in the vanguard of freedom, but, of course, that is not true and has rarely been true since probably 1967 or so. (It is not possible to date the conversion of the Free Speech Movement from legitimate into Leftist, but if you want could ask John Searle.) The Leftism that condemns American values is prevalent within these students and it is the same Leftism that coddles up to Terrorists and Communists.

As long as we allow our education system to indoctrinate our kids into the Leftist world view, we will have to fight the enemy within and without. Reagan and W are great because they are willing to call the enemy out. We should all strive for that greatness.