03 February 2006
More must reading in the Weekly Standard
This is the argument agains our Manichean President, coupled with Angelo Codevilla in No Victory No Peace
. One can be with him and against him, for a sane if more costly approach to the war Bush is attempting to execute on the cheap with no sacrifice from ordinary Americans. World War II was hard. A future war with China would be hard. A real campaign against Islamic Fundamentalism would be hard, mainly due to our oil problem.
The article in the Weekly Standard points out that we are not taking suicide bombers seriously enough, and that they are the perfect smart weapons. They are motivated by the gaining of paradise in a way that Westerners cannot comprehend. Nor are we even attempting to.
The article even approaches a Dennettian point:
What if Darwin was right conceptually, but failed to grasp that homo sapiens' most powerful evolutionary strategy is faith?
I wonder if the author knows that fertile ground has been well trod by the 'evolutionists', and is the subject of Dennett's forthcoming book.
The missing point in the piece, however, is that the way to win the war on religious extremism is to continue our materialist expansion. Air-dropping Maxim Mags and Islam Barbie dolls across the Middle East would be a good place to start. A materialist approach to life offers no paradise for murder. There are no athiest suicide bombers. Religion, in any flavor, is the ultimate problem of the 21st Century. Enjoy the world, this is it.
. One can be with him and against him, for a sane if more costly approach to the war Bush is attempting to execute on the cheap with no sacrifice from ordinary Americans. World War II was hard. A future war with China would be hard. A real campaign against Islamic Fundamentalism would be hard, mainly due to our oil problem.The article in the Weekly Standard points out that we are not taking suicide bombers seriously enough, and that they are the perfect smart weapons. They are motivated by the gaining of paradise in a way that Westerners cannot comprehend. Nor are we even attempting to.
The article even approaches a Dennettian point:
What if Darwin was right conceptually, but failed to grasp that homo sapiens' most powerful evolutionary strategy is faith?
I wonder if the author knows that fertile ground has been well trod by the 'evolutionists', and is the subject of Dennett's forthcoming book
.The missing point in the piece, however, is that the way to win the war on religious extremism is to continue our materialist expansion. Air-dropping Maxim Mags and Islam Barbie dolls across the Middle East would be a good place to start. A materialist approach to life offers no paradise for murder. There are no athiest suicide bombers. Religion, in any flavor, is the ultimate problem of the 21st Century. Enjoy the world, this is it.
