No, I'm not suggesting that neoconservatives have had anything to do with the sad fortunes of Great Britain; it's just that both topics were on my mind today. At his weblog Vox Popoli, Vox Day mentioned this article published at the Haaretz website wherein it was said that the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Adm. Michael Mullen, had effectively told Israel it had no "green light" to attack Iran. Day interpreted this as meaning that the neocons had "run out of juice" and "the third invasion has been called off, even if a proxy can be found to start it." He then used the occasion to take a shot at militant atheists, writing:
I don't see how there could ever be any need to attack Iran over nuclear weapons anyhow. Since we are reliably informed that religion prevents scientific development, there's obviously no way that the Islamic Republic could ever develop modern weaponry. QED.
I must admit, that is very clever rhetorical jujitsu and I actually agree with Day's take on the atheists, but the whole "neocon"' business is getting old; the term has long been ambiguous as I noted in earlier blog-posts here and here. In the comments to Vox Day's post, someone writing under the handle "confused" noted Jonah Goldberg's frustrations, posted today at the NRO's Corner, over the term:
"I know it's an old lament at this point, but it never ceases to amaze me how in the course of less than a decade "neocon" has come to be an all-purpose word for every liberal bogeyman imaginable. Until very recently neocons were supposed to be the "good conservatives," the ones the New York Times could tolerate at cocktail parties and leftwing academics could tolerate — in sufficiently small numbers — at egghead retreats."
I then added my own comment:
Goldberg makes a good point. Nowadays, "neocon" is just a meaningless standard issue lefty swear-word, just as "religious right" was a decade ago and "New Right" was in the '80s. And the narrative is always the same: conservatism has been hijacked by a new evil cabal leaving "real" conservatives out in the cold.
Well, as former San Antonio Express-News columnist Roddy Stinson used to say, "so much BS, so little space". Or to quote Friedrich Schiller: "Against stupidity, the gods themselves labor in vain."
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Concerning Great Britain, the cow-like submission to radical Islam and big government has gotten so bad over there that blogger Rachel Lucas has started filing her posts about it under the label "Britain Surrenders." The news articles she is writing about have all come out within the past week, the first being this story of how Muslims were "offended" at a billboard sign featuring a picture of a puppy sitting in a policeman's hat – puppies being dogs and therefore "unclean." And of course, some socialist tosser working for the local constabulary issued an apology. Fools.
And then there is this news about how explosive-sniffing dogs will now have to wear special booties if they're going to be used to search Muslim homes. Incredible. You have people in Britain plotting acts of terrorism and the government is worried about offending them by bringing dogs into their homes (which in many cases probably aren't their homes but government subsidized "council houses").
But wait, there's more! It seems that British toddlers who say "yuck" to unfamiliar, foreign foods can now be termed "racist" along with their parents. To that I say, hey you kidney pie-eating limeys, grow a pair already! By the way, I think Indian food tastes like roadkill. So sue me.
And finally, there is this sad tale of a British man named Sydney Davis, whose house was being stoned night after night by rowdy "youths." Finally, he had had enough of the situation, the police having been of little help:
For more than two years, Sydney Davis's house has been under siege from youths throwing stones.
After two hours of bombardment in the latest attack and no sign of the police, the 65-year-old retired builder decided enough was enough.
As a particularly large missile landed in his kitchen, he grabbed a plank of wood from the garden and ran towards the gang to scare them away.
The police arrived just in time - to arrest Mr Davis for possession of an offensive weapon.
He now faces up to six months in prison. Yesterday Mr Davis said he was bewildered by the decision to prosecute him.
Later in the article, Davis refers to the law as "a colossal ass." No kidding.
Winston Churchill once described socialism as "the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy." After decades of socialist domestic policies and indoctrination, which even the Conservative Party has been unable (or unwilling) to eradicate, a failed British society is the result. How sad for what was once the world's greatest empire to be reduced to a mere parody. I wouldn't say the Caliphate is coming, because for all practical purposes it is already here.
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