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I was just listening to a report from China by star BBC radio man John Humphreys. It was on the R4 Today programme and he was doing the usual British and even Western thing..ie, being superior and sniffy about how they do things. It was the usual traditional finger wagging type of report on human rights and whathaveyou...
"you are not as good as us dear boy and need to do better."
Its almost as if we here in the West have created a shangri-la of rosebud existence and others need to rush out and copy it without delay, or they are falling foul of God and Hummanity.
When are we going to learn?
Only this week and you may have heard, a church leader has urged all Christians to leave Iraq. Their lives are in immediate danger there and no mistake, we can well believe it. Because we the West have created a cesspit of unparalled chaos and misery there, we have created an Armageddon of degradation and death. It is abysmal.
Yet if we had of left the place alone there was a sort of stability. Christians and other faiths could practice their religions in relative peace because Saddam Hussein was at the helm and nobody messed with him or his regime or his system. Okay he was nobody's favourite uncle, I wouldnt pretend otherwise, but now an awful chaos has broken out and everything is truly abysmal. Daily life has got no better for anyone and all this after thousands of civilians and military personnel have died. Accomplishment : nothing.
We simply, like the boy at the dyke, shove our finger in the hole of Iraq and the menace pops up in Afghanistan, we shove our finger in the hole of Afghanistan and the menace pops up in Pakistan, we shove our finger in the hole there and the menace pops up in Yemen, shove your finger...and so it goes on.
Round and round and round we go,
but will we get there
nobody knows.
We all know in our hearts, dont we, that when the West moves back to Philadelphia and Boston and Houston and Aldershot, that the centuries old systems and life patterns of these ancient tribal lands, will all return to where it always was...and the western influence will disappear with the last military truck out.