Libya And A Craven West
From the desk of William Holland on Mon, 2011-03-14 03:00
The revolt from Islamic autocracy throughout North Africa and the Middle East have put Western cognoscenti at a dear disadvantage. For decades, Western intelligentsia have treated the region and its peoples to the soft bigotry of low expectations embodied in belief that stability was superior to liberal democracy.
We are now witnessing an Arab secular revolt unhinged from the geopolitical moorings of any Western agenda. Our anemic response embodies a betrayal worthy of Julien Benda! Western liberals cannot bring themselves to defend the very liberty that informed the cry that has now consumed so much Islamic soil.
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