by Ralph Peters
"Abetted by the global media, the suicide bomber is the wonder weapon of the age. The suicide bomber can justify any level of carnage because he's doing his god's will. The world's a stage, and every suicide bomber is, at least briefly, a star. A paradox of our time is that the overwhelmingly secular global media - a collection of natural-born religion-haters - have become the crucial accomplices of the suicide bomber fueled by rabid faith. We live in a new age of superstition and bloodthirsty gods, of collective madness. Again, our intelligentsia falls woefully short. They hate the world in which they are forced to live, and America has shaped that world. Today, America has replaced the horned, cloven-footed Lucifer of Europe's past; behind their smug assumption of superiority, contemporary Europeans are as superstitious and irrational as any of their ancestors: They simply believe in other demons. Human beings are hard-wired for faith. Deprived of a god, they seek an alternative creed. For a time, nationalism, socialism, Marxism, and a number of other-isms appeared to have a chance of working - as long as secular intellectuals rejected the evidence of Stalin's crimes or Mao's savagery (much as they overlook the brutalities of Islamist terrorists today). The intellectuals who staff the global media experienced the American-made destruction of their secular belief systems, slowly during the Cold War, then jarringly from 1989 to 1991. Human beings are hard-wired for faith. Deprived of a god, they seek an alternative creed. For a time, nationalism, socialism, Marxism, and a number of other-isms appeared to have a chance of working - as long as secular intellectuals rejected the evidence of Stalin's crimes or Mao's savagery (much as they overlook the brutalities of Islamist terrorists today). The intellectuals who staff the global media experienced the American-made destruction of their secular belief systems, slowly during the Cold War, then jarringly from 1989 to 1991."
Ralph Peters, a retired Army officer, is the author of 21 books, including New Glory: Expanding America's Global Supremacy and the forthcoming Never Quit the Fight.
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