Today words like "power" and "victory" are so stigmatized with Western sin that, in many quarters, it is politically incorrect even to utter them. For the West, "might" can never be right. And victory, when won by the West against a Third World enemy, is always oppression. But, in reality, military victory is also the victory of one idea and the defeat of another. Only American victory in Iraq defeats the idea of Islamic extremism. But in today's atmosphere of Western contrition, it is impolitic to say so.
“This is slavery, not to speak one's thought.” ― Euripides, The Phoenician Women
Tuesday, May 02, 2006
Shelby Steele: White Guilt and Iraq
From OpinionJournal.com: