Sunday, December 03, 2006
VDH: Losing the Enlightenment
Victor Davis Hanson gave the remarks at an annual Claremont Institute dinner in honor of Winston Churchill. He discusses the completely craven submission of Europe to Islamic facism, and goes on to address post 9/11 America:
I would recommend the whole speech to you.
We on this side of Atlantic also are showing different symptoms of this same Western malaise, but more likely through heated rhetoric than complacent indifference—given the events of September 11 that galvanized many, while disappointing liberals that past appeasement had created monsters rather than mere confused, if not dangerous rivals. The war on terror has turned out to be the torn scab that has exposed a deep wound beneath, of an endemic Western self-loathing—and near mania that our own superior education and material wealth have not eliminated altogether the need for force and coercion.
I would recommend the whole speech to you.
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