Multiculturalism Trumps Morality [Victor Davis Hanson]
The great threat to global morality, to paraphrase Aristotle, is the notion that you can be moral in your sleep — that by condoning any and all, under the guise of tolerance of the other, you are ethical rather than amoral. Take the bankrupt U.N. secretary general Ban Ki Moon, who in Geneva sanctions the uber-racist Ahmadinejad even as he preaches tolerance from his U.N. soapbox. “I fear that today’s economic crisis, if not handled properly, could evolve into a full-scale political crisis marked by social unrest, weakened governments, and angry publics who have lost faith in their leaders and their own future,” Mr. Ban said. Thus he cowardly ignores the concrete moral felony in front of him as he cheaply and easily goes after a putative moral transgression in the abstract.
We have forgotten that the clichés that have been so loudly on display during the recent Obama global tours — such as “tolerance” (for what?), “multilateralism,” “partnerships,” etc. — while often therapeutic, avoid the harder and often tragic choice to stand up to the glad-handing multicultural thug who wants a photo-op with an American president, who in turn wants a photo-op emphasizing how well he is liked abroad and resonates with the global masses — all at the expense of the poor soul thrown into a Cuban jail, or beaten up by the Chávez goon squads, or slaughtered by the Ahmadinejad religious police, or shut down and hounded by the Ortega thugocracy. When all “paths” are equal, there are none better or worse than the others — and we really are on the road to perdition.
I remember President Bush, at the point of tears when he described the suffering of the North Korean people at the hands of their evil leaders.
That president didn't care about his image or the praises of men, but what his Final Accountability would be.
0bama isn't fit to lick his soles.