If only this wisdom had been available 60 years ago, we could have avoided WW II by understanding the reasons Japan bombed Pearl Harbor and addressing them.

I mean, if we give Hitler Czechoslovakia, what possible reason would he have to go to war? We can achieve piece in our time, and all get a nice quiet sleep.

TallDave:

Oh man, that is a good one! Made me laugh out loud.

The slave revolt in morality begins when the resentment itself becomes creative and gives birth to values: the resentment of those beings who are prevented from a genuinely active reaction and who compensate for that with a merely imaginary vengeance. While all noble morality grows out of a triumphant self-affirmation, slave morality from the start says No to what is "outside," "other," "a non-self". And this No is its creative act. This transformation of the glance which confers value—this necessary projection towards what is outer instead of back into itself—that is inherent in resentment. In order to arise, slave morality always requires first an opposing world, a world outside itself.

Oh, for the love of all that's good and sane.
Speak the Queen's English, man.

Since I got out of college I don't trudge through that stuff anymore.

George Galloway has an answer.

It's the Eloi vs. the Morlocks, with the Eloi convinced that the Morlocks' predations will stop once they've been enlightened. Unfortunately the Morlocks are immune to the Eloi's charms - they'll keeping noshing on the occasional Eloi until they've gathered the resources to overturn the hierarchy.

Meanwhile the Eloi attempt to preserve their illusion of tranquility by doggedly ignoring any evidence which threatens their world view.

It's good that you're in Andrew Sullivan outrage mode, Ace, because HE sure isn't. His blog is full of pip-pip old boy, we'll put on the kettle and have a nice cuppa tea reminiscences of the Blitz. Is it maybe time to DO something now? Oh, no, let's just go to the pub and have a beer - that'll show the Islamoholics what they're up against! His own people have been slaughtered in their own streets, and he can't get over the thrill of English stoicism - something the Americans don't have, incidentally.

Wanda's right. There needs to be a new bottom level on the Freak-out Advisory, in ultra-violet, labeled "Stoic." What a fitting moment for him to reach that state of equanimity.

The Left is just running the usual play of the Vision of the Annointed. They want power over YOU, pure and simple, and will lie, cheat and step all over the graves of murdered to get it.

This shouldn't come as a surprise...

Next we'll be hearing about how any attempts to 'kill the bastards' in an indiscriminate fashion makes us 'just as bad as them'. The irony being that the left never seems to think they are all that bad when they do it.

Of course, their use of the phrase indicates that the know the terrorists are in the wrong, they just aren't eager to support any kind of force, political or otherwise against them. To do so would lend support to the Bush agenda and frankly, they would rather see dead civillians than do that. After all, there are elections coming up don't ya know.

Question their patriotism? Of course, after all, isn't it brave to ask the difficult questions? I'm just showing my liberal courage.

How about the best line ever from LoTR?

"Those who do not have swords may yet die upon them."

The Corner has some quotes of lefty responses that sound like this:
"But...but...they interrupted the G8! And the G8 was about poverty! We are trying to help them! Because terrorism is only because of poverty! Why don't they get this??"

Once they get ovetr that dissonance, then they'' get back to the blame America stuff, then it will be back to business as usual.

I don't know what it owuld take for them to open their eyes.

Oh their eyes are open, they just don have the grey-matter to process what they're seeing.

They want to be martyrs? Let them. The Templar commander at Bezziers said, "Neca eos omnes. Deus suos agnoset!" Kill them all. God will know his own.

For every bombing against a civilian target, we turn one Arab city into a sheet of glass, without warning and with extreem prejudice. Start with Mecca, Ryiad, and Damascas, and work outwards. Somebody, somewhere will sue for peace.

Or not.

How many besides myself see this atrocity and mutter, "Thank you, Zapatero. Idiot. Bastard. Chump."