More on Middle Eastern Turmoil
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Posted: 09/12/07
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More on Middle Eastern Turmoil
By Thomas E. Brewton
Liberal-Progressive-socialism caused today's mess, not matter how far
back into history we go.
Commenting on Mr. Slater Bakhtavar's essay:
www.thomasbrewton.com/index.php/weblog/
iraq_the_historical_background/ ), Mr. James Veverka states,
"Nonsense. Carter was a fool regarding several things but the primary
cause of the deep problems of the middle east is the effects of
colonialism and the partitions after WW1."
Mr. Veverka neglects to state that this is merely another way of
laying the problems of the Middle East at the doorstep of liberalism.
Before World War I, most of the Middle East was controlled by the
Islamic Ottoman Empire, not by Western colonial powers.
He also neglects to state that the partition of the old Ottoman
Empire after World War I was largely at the impetus of President
Woodrow Wilson, an iconic liberal-Progressive, along with Georges
Clemenceau, the leader of socialist France.
This partitioning was a typical liberal-Progressive-socialist
project, a conception of the liberal mind that believes abstract
reason, in an ivory-tower vacuum, is always superior to the wisdom of
past ages. Liberal policy wonks, from Wilson to Jimmy Carter and
Bill Clinton, have always been cockily confident that they have
special knowledge and abilities that can transform human societies
into perfection. Liberals specialize in seeing all that is wrong
with political societies and prescribing radical surgery that leaves
the patient uncured, but permanently crippled.
In the case of the Middle East, we had an early example of the
political destructiveness that today is taught as multiculturalism.
The false and corrosive idea is that social, ethnic, and economic
groups, not individuals, are the proper units of government.
Rejected is the original foundation of our Constitution upon
individual citizens, the conception that every individual is created
equal before the law and that the task of our educational and
political institutions is to integrate all immigrant cultures into
ours, persuading them that our original constitutionalism affords
history's greatest personal freedom and individual prosperity.
For more than 5,000 years the Middle Eastern peoples had been ruled
by one empire after another, always by autocratic, if not despotic,
Pharaohs, kings, and sultans. Never in history had those peoples
experienced self-government.
Undeterred by this, and heeding arch-liberal John Dewey's dictum that
history is not a proper subject for progressive school curricula,
liberal-Progressive-socialists split the Middle East into a
hodgepodge of protectorates administered by France, England, et al.,
creating artificial "nations" that existed only on maps. The cause
du jour was "self-determination," which in the Middle East was an
overture to anarchic tribal warfare.
In the same way, today's liberal-Progressive-socialists, both on the
Republican and the Democratic sides, believe that splitting our
nation into warring cultural camps, using the tools of
multiculturalism and affirmative action, is more desirable than
educating our youth to revere the Constitution and the individual
liberties of life, private property, and political action.
Thomas E. Brewton is a staff writer for the New Media Alliance, Inc.
The New Media Alliance is a non-profit (501c3) national coalition of
writers, journalists and grass-roots media outlets.
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