Thursday, May 24, 2007

Hanson's Scary Western Irrationality

Here's the link to Victor Davis Hanson's article in Imprimis that col.b.bunny referenced in a comment here on "The Sleeping Giant of Western Tribalism".

It's so good, I wanted to share it with ya'll. And I just wanted another reason to quote the last line. It makes me feel all warm and fuzzy:
"So far the Iranian leader has posed as someone 90 percent crazy and ten percent sane, hoping that in response we would fear his overt madness, grant concessions, and delicately appeal to his small reservoir of reason. But he should understand that if his Western enemies appear 90 percent of the time as children of the Enlightenment, they are still suffused with vestigial traces of the emotional and unpredictable. And military history shows that the irrational ten percent of the Western mind is a lot scarier in the end than anything Islamic fanaticism has to offer."

Kinda like a lullabye.

The Gunslinger

2 comments:

  1. Too many "https" in the link to the Hanson article, Gunslinger.

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  2. Thanks, I fixed it.

    And thanks for the reference. Great, as always from Hanson.

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