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Shock & Awe Becomes Awfully Shocking

The neocons seem to REALLY be fraying, and, like the perp in the interrogation room presented with incontrovertible evidence, saying the darndest things.

Don't believe me? Check THIS one out on Opinion Journal by Shelby Steele entitled "White Guilt and the Western Past."

Steele walks us through how "western guilt," even WHITE western guilt, seems to hold "us" back from doing the job "we" should do. I can't say for sure, but I get the distinct vibe that Steele is a kind of American crusading jihadist, wanting to civilize the rest of the world.

Perhaps I'm from another planet, but Steele shockingly writes this:

"Possibly white guilt's worst effect is that it does not permit whites--and nonwhites--to appreciate something extraordinary: the fact that whites in America, and even elsewhere in the West, have achieved a truly remarkable moral transformation."

I see. We "white Americans" are, what, the next stage in evolution, and therefore we are justified, I presume Steele means, to intern Japanese Americans, incinerate innocents with the only nuclear weapons ever used, engineer revolutions in Iran and elsewhere, invade Vietnam and Iraq with dubious cover stories, etc., etc., etc.?

I would like to know what Steele means by "moral transformation," but even if it were so (and I'm NOT buying), his ideas here are simply repellent.

Still, Steele has done us a great service, exposing the very darkest side of neocon thought for all to see.

-Robert Capozzi

Posted by Robert Capozzi on May 2, 2006 04:44 PM |

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