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It seems like just yesterday that West Side Story, in the classic, “Gee, Officer Krupke”, made fun of the notion that criminals were just “a product of social decay’”:
Yes, Officer Krupke, he shouldn’t be here
This boy don’t need a couch, he needs a useful career
Society’s played him a terrible trick
And sociologically he’s sick
I am sick
We are sick, we are sick
We are sick, sick, sick
Like we’re sociologically sick
In my opinion, this child does not need
To have his head shrunk at all
Juvenile delinquency
Is purely a social disease
A couple of decades pass and we find out that the Obama administration missed the joke and thinks that murderous savages drunk on public headchopping, cannibalism, enslavement of others, and burying children alive, is “just a question of misunderstood”, the results of colonialism and the lack of Middle Eastern job fairs.
Even the usual Obama fluffers like Vox and the Atlantic are finding it hard to paper over such idiocy as administration claims that to counter violent extremism we must let the jihadis “address legitimate grievances through the democratic process”.
From the Atlantic:
Muslims can reject the Islamic State; nearly all do. But pretending that it isn’t actually a religious, millenarian group, with theology that must be understood to be combatted, has already led the United States to underestimate it and back foolish schemes to counter it. We’ll need to get acquainted with the Islamic State’s intellectual genealogy if we are to react in a way that will not strengthen it, but instead help it self-immolate in its own excessive zeal.
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