The UN and the NGOs have become a vast system of “outdoor relief” for the social science departments of academic institutions, who descend on conflicts with their rapporteurs, ethical auditors, gender sensitivity consultants, carbon counters, lawyers and whatnot. It’s a system that exists for its own benefit and hearkens only to its own voice. You would be mistaken to think this vast system is about the poor, the downtrodden or the oppressed. It’s about them. Even now in Sri Lanka it’s about them and their mantra-like idiocies.

IMHO, Wretchard, never have truer words been spoken. In previous threads you have quoted articles in which the Wise have attributed the fall of the Tamil Tigers to their loss of “moral authority.” Its a common theme: the morally just shall triumph.

But now we move into phase two of doublethink. For just as the Wise believe that the morally just will prevail when a conflict is in progress, so also do they also believe that no contest, military or economic, can result in a clear winner unless the winners “cheated” in some fashion. The current narrative of the Tigers as terrorists will soon vanish down the memory hole, to be replaced by the manufactured history of the brave and noble fighters who were exterminated by a reactionary regime.