{"id":8317,"date":"2013-12-02T14:12:31","date_gmt":"2013-12-02T14:12:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/12\/02\/the-disaster-named-obama\/"},"modified":"2013-12-02T14:12:31","modified_gmt":"2013-12-02T14:12:31","slug":"the-disaster-named-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/12\/02\/the-disaster-named-obama\/","title":{"rendered":"The Disaster Named ‘Obama’"},"content":{"rendered":"

More brilliant columns by Victor Davis Hanson:<\/span><\/p>\n

Obama and the Suspension of Disbelief<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

The Politicization of Everything<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

This is an extremely penetrating analysis, worthy of careful study.  Excerpt (emphasis added):
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Again, note the nature of the \u201cforemost\u201d ideological mandate: if Muslim nations do not feel \u201cgood\u201d about their historical contributions to science and engineering, such depression could not be attributed to their present scientific ossification or Islam\u2019s often historical subordination to Western science, especially after the fifteenth century. Instead, the discontent over the absence of scientific parity might be due to other more nefarious causes\u2014and thus in part rectified by the power, wealth, and influence of a properly sensitive U.S. federal government.<\/span><\/p>\n

Similarly, homeland security is no longer just about ensuring the safety of the United States. In a series of bizarre euphemisms\u2014overseas contingency operations, man-caused disasters, work-place violence\u2014Islamic terrorism was redefined as a spontaneous tragedy without specified causation. To the degree that the issue of radical Islam was unavoidable in the debate over U.S. domestic and foreign policy, the contortions only grew worse: we should not allow the mass murderer Major Hasan to prejudice the Army\u2019s diversity program; the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt was largely secular; and jihad is a legitimate tenet of Islam properly characterized as a \u201choly struggle,\u201d and therefore improperly associated with radical Islamic terrorists.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The politicization of almost every aspect of American culture and politics over the last five years could easily be expanded. Traditional employment background checks are now \u201cracist\u201d given that minorities with higher crime records might be unduly affected.<\/strong> The 2009 reordering of the Chrysler creditors leap-frogged junior union creditors over senior bondholders\u2014as enforcement of existing legislation becomes predicated on perceptions of social justice rather than faithfully executing settled laws on the books. Each new tropical storm launches a fresh debate about \u201cclimate change,\u201d despite no evidence that recent weather is more prone to hurricanes or the planet has heated up over the last 15 years. Almost every new mass shooting offers occasion for mobilization to enhance existing gun control legislation.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

America's Coastal Royalty<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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More brilliant columns by Victor Davis Hanson: Obama and the Suspension of Disbelief The Politicization of Everything This is an extremely penetrating analysis, worthy of careful study.  Excerpt (emphasis added): Again, note the nature of the \u201cforemost\u201d ideological mandate: if Muslim nations do not feel \u201cgood\u201d about their historical contributions to science and engineering, such … Continue reading “The Disaster Named ‘Obama’”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[180],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-decline-of-the-west"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}