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Nelson Ascher's
target="_blank">The
Berlin Wall's Revenge argues that a Left shorn of its Communist goals by the
fall of the Berlin Wall has become an enterprise dedicated to revenge.
They have only things to destroy, and all those things are personified in
the US, in its very existence. They may, outwardly, fight for some positive
cause: save the whales, rescue the world from global heating and so on. But
let's not be deceived by this: they choose as their so-called positive
causes only the ones that have both the potential of conferring some kind of
innocent legitimacy on themselves and, much more important, that of doing most
harm to their enemy, whether physically or to its image.
We, well, at least I was wrong to dismiss the pre-1989 leftists as
dinosaurs condemned to extinction by evolution. While I was looking the other
way, they were regrouping, inventing new slogans, creating new tactics and,
above all, keeping the flames of their hatred burning.
This newly ever-growing Western left, not only in Europe, but in Latin
America and even in the US itself, has a clear goal: the destruction of the
country and society that vanquished its dreams fifteen years ago. But it does
not have, as in the old days of the Soviet Union, the hard power to accomplish
this by itself. Thanks to this, all our leftist friends' bets are now on
radical Islam. What can they do to help it? Answer: tie down America's
superior strength with a million Liliputian ropes: legal ones, political ones,
with propaganda and disinformation etc. Anything and everything will do.
Although Ascher describes the hatred of the Left as the sole surviving ember
in the ashes, he left out the one other emotion which has still survived:
conceit. If the Western Left is convinced of anything it is it can bend the
Islamic world to its will once America has been cleared away. Samuel
Huntington target="_blank">wrote
that Islam was "convinced of the superiority of their culture and are
obsessed with the inferiority of their power." But he might have been
describing the Left, for whom recent history has been an unaccountable theft of
their birthright; a little detail they will put right when America is
vanquished. But there is the additional complication of Islam and the idea that
they are the Wave of the Future is so ingrained the possibility that Islam will
eventually dominate is unthinkable.
But why not? Islam is 1000 years older than the Left; its population
burgeoning while the Left is aborting itself into demographic extinction. More
fundamentally, any honest Leftist must realize that his movement and its
aspirations are rooted in the very West it seeks to destroy. Communist
totalitarianism is the doppelganger of secular freedom; and the serpent in the
garden must know that the desert, so hospitable to Islam, can only be a place of
death for it. The Left may have embarked upon a journey of revenge. They will
find suicide.
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