Word: moralizers
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Whether or not these professors are assigning moral blame to the U.S. for the terrorist acts, they are saying, essentially, that we are reaping what we have sown...
...they say that we are responsible for the conditions leading to the current violence while refusing to examine other influences. The relationships we are confronting are extraordinarily complex and multifaceted, whereas the intellectuals would have us believe that our policies are almost solely responsible for the widespread political and moral turmoil in the Muslim world today. Very few professors I have heard have asked the question, “What is unique about Islam that is creating this violence?” or, “Why are all but one Islamic country undemocratic?” There...
...poor and oppressed peoples throughout the Arab and wider Muslim world, it will require more engagement from the United States, not less. But before we can begin this process, it will take a realization in this country of the value of our ideals and an explicit rejection of the moral relativism pervasive at places like Harvard...
...Finally, the cold war was waged against a system that was officially godless, and which based its moral authority (however cynically) on what it conceived as a scientific understanding of the march of history. This claim, of course, could not withstand genuine scrutiny. Tellingly, many of the Soviet Union's most prominent dissidents, such as Andrei Sakharov, were scientists. They saw that the claims of communism couldn't be empirically validated; moreover, they had the courage to say that the evidence proved the opposite of communism's claim to build peace, happiness or even a decent...
...stand to gain from better relations. For Iran, support for an anti-terrorism coalition could get sanctions lifted and frozen assets released. In exchange, Washington would expect Iran to provide valuable intelligence on the Taliban and to stop supporting extremist groups like Hamas and Hizballah. Not least, Khatami's moral authority in the Islamic world could help dampen any anti-Western backlash in the wake of military attacks on Afghanistan...