Monday, August 28, 2006
Neo-neocon takes an interesting, though not Pollyanaish, look at an admittedly remarkable article written by Hamas spokesman, Ghazi Hamad: The Palestinians: loving death, loving life
Exactly and precisely. Patton was one of the least PC military men who ever lived. He was controversial even back in WWII, when political correctness was hardly a gleam in the left's eye. But now even the military is far more PC than it ever was; in recent decades, the military has become more reluctant to make "the other bastard" die for his. Like it or not (and Jacksonians don't like it), the gloves are on when we've fought the wars of this century, at least so far.
One can only conclude that if the Palestinians, Hezbollah, and Iran had the weaponry the US has, they would not hesitate to obliterate anyone they perceive as having wronged them, shamed them, or gotten in their way. Their love of death is not limited to seeking their own deaths; they definitely embrace the death of their enemies.
And in a more Darwinian and less PC world, the Palestinians' love of death, their lack of advanced weaponry, and their aggressiveness towards an enemy who does possess that weaponry would long ago have resulted in their getting their wish: death. Their own deaths, and the death of their society...
More.
I have to think, within all that negation, nihilism and "love of death" is a self-destructive embolism. Thing is, as neo suggests, the West is largely and critically failing Israel (and itself at large, in the end) by providing long term incubation and sustenance for all that negation, doing so under the guise or belief that they're somehow helping "the little guy," the Arab refugees aka "Palestinians". So, that makes it all rather difficult to come to terms with, so many layers of the onion that need to be peeled away, such a complex, not simply of MSM, etc. propaganda, but levels and layers of semiotics which run up and down the registers of content and meaning, and that are widely disseminated. All that probably sounds like I'm attempting to be smarter than I am, yet any serious view of the ideological/semiotic complex needs to think along those lines if we're ever to get past the Left's, tranzi's, et al. more critical support of those elements of negation and nihilism, that embolism, and therein begin to sustain a genuine strategic vision which will prise apart the negation from the more civilized aspects, and therein make it possible to defeat the former.
Odd language to employ perhaps, but it's at least suggestive in the right direction. Thing is, will the West be able to envision it, see it to its end, or will it rather settle for some type of status quo arrangement, for not being able to envision that end, or because at some point the cost will be deemed to be too high? Time will tell, or this and the next generation will tell us, but I tend to think the Arab refugee cum "Palestinian" situation is pivotal, maybe even something of a rosetta stone, and will eventually be telling since so much of the Left's and the tranzi's ideological/semiotic complex is heavily invested in that arena.