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VDH blogs on perpetual victimhood:

This was the one recent chance when the United States backed its lofty rhetoric with real sacrifice in the Middle East—but so far the moment is passing and will be replaced by something far worse if it fails. Just remember, should democratization falter, none of us will ever worry much about [...]

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…by playing in accord with his own rules.  More precisely:  we demand an apology from every Muslim cleric, every Muslim head of state, every Muslim legislator, editorialist, you name it, who has incited violence against the Pope, being as we see this as a direct attack on our civilization.  And if the apology is refused…well, [...]

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Spengler continues his hilariously abusive analysis of American resentment (which I offer not with unqualified endorsement but mostly for your amusement):

Americans who grew up in the 1950s and afterward remain in a perpetual childhood of peer identification, hostile to all authority.

That is not quite true, I concluded in the August 29 essay; most Americans acknowledge [...]

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David Pryce-Jones today on 9/11:

What 9/11 proves is the resentment that a sizable proportion of the Muslim world feels against the West. No doubt this resentment is a complex compound of hate and love, envy and rejection, shame and pride, and outsiders can probably never quite get the measure of it. Nevertheless the resentment drives [...]

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Here’s an essay that raises the level of discussion, in many ways; note, also, its call for “anthropology” (even though it means that more in the sense of “ethnography”):

http://www.policyreview.org/000/corn2.html

And, here, we have a wide ranging, sophisticated discussion that surfaces some friendly disagreements that might have long term consequences among those devoted to renewing their stake [...]

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http://www.newenglishreview.org/