In Defense of the West
Michael Moore and Noam Chomsky can go grope each other: no nation in history has freed more people, inspired more people, solved more human problems, and spent more of its treasure on foreign aid, while doubling their people's life span in a century, than the US. This did not happen by accident, or by some peculiar combination of raw materials and disease-scoured continent ready to fill. If raw materials and manpower were the key ingredients to world domination then the Russians or the Chinese would have long ruled Earth. America was a weak global power just 100 years ago. TR began to fix that, thank goodness. We have achieved our dominance over much more brutal and efficient governments who had the jump on us and yet we were somehow able to organize two complete ocean's worth of Navys, and the assault and air power to wage two full scale wars all across the world. And we wrapped the enemy up in just about 3 years. How could this have happened? The Hate America Firsters claim that we used subjugation and exploitation and war to get there. Really? in just few generations, we were so diabolically clever and pitilessly efficient that we now straddle the entire innocent and but-for-US happy and enlightened world? And we did this by force? I'd like to see the record on that. It's what historians call "counterfactual", psychologists call "paranoid self-loathing" and I call bullshit.
Three crucial developments occurred during the 1990s which have changed the political equations of the entire relations of man, allowing for the first time a real chance of developing a sort of global federalism which works, which means providing good government by the free choice of the governed. These are the collapse of the USSR, the spread of capitalism into China, and the rise of Islamic terrorism, culminating on 9/11/01. Only the American nation can take a huge national disaster and effect positive change in the most destitute parts of the world. First came the ousting the horrid Taliban, which should have been a UN project years earlier, if not Clinton's in '96. The next, and most important, is the end of Saddamism in Iraq. Quaddaffy's ducking days are over, as he seems to be convinced by "Iraqi Freedom" that the Anglo-American alliance means business when it comes to these reckless terrorists--State or no state. The Europeans seems to be actually getting tough on Iran's illegitimate nuke program, using the bad cop US as foil to their good copage. Whatever works. North Korea has been manuevered into multi-lateral talks, which it has for decades succesfully resisted. Pakistan has stopped its proliferation, and is making peace with India. These and smaller examples of the decline of despotism are due almost entirely to the enlightened philosophy and determined opposition to totalitarianism of the United States and its few steadfast allies. If that makes us imperialist pigs, then oink oink roll me over in the mud and do it again. Next: Sudan, then Cuba then Nigeria!
In assessing the root causes of despotism around the world, surely many of the Cold War and Corporate Imperialism policies of the American government deserve a share. But in the annals of Imperialst Dickhead history, which would surely run to 10,000+ volumes, the sins of the modern West, the countries of NATO, if you will, rate hardly a footnote compared to the rest of inhuman history. We in the West have not only the self-evident right to vigorously defend ourselves from maniacs like Al Qaeda, but the humanistic obligation to extend the freedom and security we've created for ourselves to our fellow man who, through no fault of his own, and perhaps some of ours, is not so fortunate as to live as free as we. No dictator should be considered the rightful governor of any people or state without the sure guarantee of the freely given consent of the governed. Any other arrangement should henceforth be considered illegitimate and subject to pressure from the UN and all other interested parties, up to and including the infamous "regime change".
~ Matt Terry ~