Dan @84,
“why this strategy? ”
Great question. There is a remarkable trend in academe, the Democrat(ic) Party and foreign affairs circles not just to imagine, but to actively craft, an alternative history of the world that is intentionally at odds with select nations’ (usually Germano-Capitalist ones’) histories. To construct this “revolutionary” polemic demands a lot of scheming in ivory towers as well as focused action on the ground.
This global history, as it is described by my leftist collegiate acquaintances, derives from one book, Zinn’s People’s History of the World, and it fuses extra-judiciary, collectivist concepts like “social justice” and “it takes a village” with an epochal, supranational time-view. Likewise, Islam’s radical historians approach world history from a similar, thousand-years-long stance that omits personal, parochial, state and national autonomies. Articulated together, like a scissors, the two act to shred national European histories, borders and shared Hellenistic traditions.
Juxtaposed to Zinn’s reprised “history,” mediations on such questions as, “Do Obama’s apologies to Islam mean that 9/11 worked and the Great Satan is shamed?,” or “Thomas Jefferson built the Navy and Islam raised the suicide bomber, in 2010 with Iran poised to get ‘the bomb’, which party has won?” – especially in the wake of a domestic massacre inside an American military campus this week – may help you to see a strategy. In 2003, our push into Iraq was, according to this alternative history, a deliberate affront to the Ummah and to the Left’s vaunted “International Law.” Consequently, in 2009, American soldiers aren’t safe onshore in their barracks.
The polemic leaves open the question, “Who won in Iraq?” Obama told us all which ‘history’ he favors – remember, he believes that America owes “reparations,” and that Bush ran “gulags” and started an “illegal” war.
It is one thing to like a particular fable, but…if his party is actively crafting the Tranzi’s anti-American ‘history’ with bows to oil-barons, scrapes to Mullahs, UN proxy-plays, dithering in Afghanistan, and other ‘soft power’ expressions, well, with 13 dead and over thirty wounded at Fort Hood, I’d say they’re bumping up against treason.
