Despite continual explosions of depravity in displayed moralistic values, people still surprise me.
First, America, the greatest force for good in history, is chastized by our critics for toppling a brutal dictator. Were it not for the freshmen's mistake of offering up "WMD" as an excuse over serving decency, the world's greatest representation of slothful worthlessness wouldn't have their comfortable exhonerations from helping their fellow man. Our critics are those that have a historical love affair for dictators. Those that have enough integrity to stand out from under our wing as they criticize practice their own brand of dictatorships within their own populations.
Second, those countries that criticized us for the act itself also now show discomfort that a brutal dictator will be hung for his sins by the people he sinned. We hear the Global Left cry wildly about how he did not receive a fair trial or that he was just simply misunderstood as he practiced villiany under the protection of "soveriegnty." Of course, they seek the high ground by casually mentioning that, "Oh yeah...I agree that he was a bad guy." Tell it to the Kurds and the Shi'ite in Iraq. Tell it to the Muslims in Kuwait. Tell it to the Iranians. Tell it to the Israelis.
The truth is that the Global Left is moraly bankrupt and haven't the will to enforce the cherished values they pretend to hold. The hate that exists world wide for America is a product of our past century achievements and their failures. We Americans have wrecked socialistic theories of governance and brutality alike. From Berlin's iron fist to Paris' needs to satisfy security at all cost and from the failed communist model in the former Soviet Union to the religious monopoply on display in the ME - the distaste our critics feel for their ruined parties is grand. It is so grand that bringing a tyrant, who merely practiced the perfected skills of European power, to justice is even stripped away from America. Germany may hold the crown, but much of the world has an obsession with vilifying America and Israel. So much, that the mere hint that an enemy of the free world will pay for his crimes.
But, there is also another aspect to people's distaste for world events today. The Global Left like to pretend that they are all a part of the same organization of higher authority over those of us who act on their imagined beliefs. They like to pretend that the world is full of simple misunderstandings that a nice hot cup of tea and some crumpets will fix. But, according to the gutters of the globe from where I have seen the world, good and evil is very much at hand. The third world is covered in blood which is the legacy of all those European countries who graced the world with colonialism. After vacating so much stolen land and leaving power vacuums or creating frankenstien's monster states, people were left to sieze power through any means necessary. Whether they used religion, militant power, or superstition that reach back so far that it is mostly myth, the world is a bloody mess for which the guilty have washed their hands. In the wake of European colonialism, the historical art of embracing the most powerful dictator no matter what he did so as long as he killed selectively (America was also guilty of it for a brief period during the Cold War), became foreign policy. Our efforts to build an inclusive world organization in the UN have failed humanity. The UN has become a tool for protecting apprentice Hitlers. In the struggle between good and evil Americans and all others who stand fro true freedom needs to be on the side of a different future, not of a club of "great" powers whose memberships was frozen in the wake of WWII.
But after all is said and done and in the face of the world we live in, some people only have enough strength to announce that Saddam Hussein, considered one of history's worst dictators, had an unfair trial and will hang for his crimes against humanity. Our critics-unwittingly, but some consciously-have chosen evil over good. Pathetic.
