Everyone else has commented on this gem by Nick Denton:
One could point at the examples of Japan and Germany after the Second World War. But the Muslim world provides its own case study. Ottoman Turkey only began to pay attention to Western science and organization after its first serious military defeats at the hands of Austria and Russia in the 17th and 18th centuries. The US needs to destroy Saddam Hussein's regime because he's a bad man, sure, because he may conceivably be connected with Al-Qaeda, because he's developing weapons of mass destruction, because a friendly Iraq would alter the balance of power in the Middle East, sure, because of all of that. But the US needs to destroy Saddam Hussein's regime mainly because the West needs to humiliate the Arab world, and dispel the Islamic millenial fantasy.
I'm starting to wonder if he's just staging an elaborate hoax -- seeing how rabid he can get and still have people scream "Yes! Yes!"
Has anyone bothered to check what year it is on the Islamic calendar? Maybe he meant something else by millenial fantasy....
But, in any case, I realize that the post-traumatic stress disorder suffering armchair warriors, equipped with their mighty keyboards and militant mice, really have started to confuse their verbal bombardment with the real thing.
Look out! It's a humiliation bomb!
lordy.
(via Level Gaze)
