Since the time of Napoleon's invasion of Egypt, Europeans have been meddling in the affairs of Muslims in order to benefit financially from the exploitation of Middle East resources.
Since the Royal Navy switched from coal to oil to power its imperial and capitalistic fleets a century ago, we've seen western state sponsored terror inflicted on innocent and guilty Muslim alike, yet only a relative handful of Muslim retaliation strikes on the homelands of their tormentors.
Since your capitalistic vision of the Middle East requires those living there to forfeit their land, water, and oil to economic terrorists in Tel Aviv, London, and New York, maybe you're projecting when you accuse others of pathological behavior?
Oh,please, George. Spare us your lectures.
In the 20th century, the world stood knee deep in a lake of blood filled by every manner of leftist policy and inherent excess promoted by your socialist heroes—revenge; torture; exploitation; starvation; the elevation of psychopaths (Che), drunks, and peasants; subversion (Armand Hammer); assassination; execution; organ harvesting; concentration camps; aggressive war; arbitrary justice; subservient courts; sponsorship of terrorism; diplomatic support for cretins and monsters; and pursuit of ideas of human nature and economics that would have been laughable if they hadn’t been pathetic and murderous.
But this was, from the beginning, invisible to leftists. They were convinced that the highest human good was (a) to support any unanchored freaks who could fit the words “brotherhood,” “justice,” or “capitalist pig” into every second sentence and (b) to pull down any structure erected by our ancestors to encourage the triumph of reason, to transmit knowledge, to encourage free inquiry, to restrain arbitrary government, and to liberate women and the poor from bonds both legal, customary, and economic.
Can you point to any historical structure erected by our ancestors designed to liberate women or the poor?
Of course. The Civil Rights Act of 1964, The Equal Rights Amendment and establishment of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to name a few. Tell us of the comparable laws established by your socialist heroes Stalin and Lenin.
In the US, the Founders not only disallowed democracy for all women, African Americans, and Native Americans, they prevented non-land owning white males from casting their votes for decades after the Constitution was ratified.
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That 20th Century lake was filled primarily from WWI and WWII, and a far greater percentage of capitalists both supported and profited from each of those terrors. Socialists, in general, see the War Racket far more clearly than you do.
There are certain social constructs that have proven to be largely self destructive: communism / socialism and especially totalitarian religious fear societies.
It is not surprising that we have seen a mostly peaceful transition away from
Communism by the very country that had inaugurated it (USSR).
There was a first step in the second communist country (China) a few decades ago, and that of course turned very violent with suppression -- but in the interim they have effectively adopted a capitalist system of economics in any event. Communism, almost non-existent in the 21st century, (and eventually religious rulers) as a dictatorial government will die on the vine because they cannot addresses some key flaws they have.
Faults and errors notwithstanding, if Western values like freedom, justice, and plurality
are not excellent and admirable, then which values are? The indiscriminate leveling blade of communism? The crippling taxes and multicultural fragmentation of socialism lite & trade?, The brutal, medieval sharia law of Islam? If Western democracies don't lead the world forward into an uncertain future, who will? I personally don't like the idea of the E.U. or China filling this role, for reasons which should be self-evident.
Sorry, george, but your communist/socialist utopias have long ago been discarded as unworkable.