Where do we go from here, how sad what we have done to ourselves.
The Fatal Befuddlement
by J. R. Nyquist

In the West, the party of appeasement doesn’t like to admit that certain regimes are totalitarian. It refuses to see that totalitarian regimes constantly and subtly introduce poison into the political discourse of the free world. It is wiser, they believe, to partly ingest the poison (as an antidote to simple-mindedness). Therefore, the party of appeasement predictably denounced what they saw as President Bush’s divisive, undiplomatic and unconstructive approach to foreign affairs. At the same time, the war party in the United States found itself confused and disoriented by the president’s narrow focus on three of the weakest totalitarian regimes confronting the United States. Iraq, Iran and North Korea were small, poorly run, pariah states, entirely dependent on the “former” communist bloc. Iraq, Iran and North Korea do not pose a threat on their own, but only when armed and assisted by larger enemy states. But the West does not accept the idea that these larger states are enemies. Here we find a problem of intellectual digestion. Only small states with nuclear weapons pose a threat. Big states, like Russia or China, are always friendly. The West won’t accept any other formula.
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