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Dropping names, dropping bombs; BHL jumps the shark
That indefatigable cheerleader for war, Bernard-Henri Levy, solemnly informed us this week that, make no mistake, we are at war with Islamic State.
“A new kind of war,” no less.
And please note that this is not a war of our choosing; this war has been forced on the US and France and their allies. Yes, the sordid history of France in Algeria and America's serial wars on Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and Syria have nothing to do with the emergence of radical Islam.
They hate us for our democratic values, our openness, our tolerance…
Even the great BHL seems to be vaguely aware of what a putrid pile of shit he has concocted here. Perhaps that is why he has perfumed this outrageously dishonest dung-heap of a call to war with no less than twenty instances of name-dropping:
Leon Blum
Elie Halevy
Georges Bataille
Michel Leiris
Roger Caillois
Thucydides
Clausewitz
Carl Schmitt
Saint Augustine
Saint Thomas Aquinas
Victor Hugo
Paul Claudel
Hitler
Massoud
Izetbegovic
Mujibur Rahman
Tariq Ramadan
Abdelwahab Meddeb
Churchill
George Pitt-Rivers.
Wow! That's a staggeringly impressive level of erudition on display in one relatively brief essay! And fear not, BHL already has a road-map to victory in the war that the forces of darkness have forced on the Nations of Virtue.
Yes, they've got us cornered, those “fascislamists” do, and we freedom-loving peaceable nations who have been ravaging and plundering and humiliating the Islamic world for generations have no choice but to fight a merciless war for our very survival…
That sounds like a call to genocide to me, Mr. Levy.
Source: http://theviewfromfallingdowns.blogspot.com/2015/11/dropping-names-dropping-bombs-bhl-jumps.html
