COMMENTARY_ Syria and the failure of the Western elites

THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Syria and the failure of the Western elites

Nation's fate is in its citizens' hands

A Syrian man flashes victory signs on a top of a government forces tank, that was left on a street, as he celebrates during the second day of the take over of the city by the insurgents in Damascus, Syria, … more >

COMMENTARY

By Michael McKenna - Wednesday, December 11, 2024

OPINION:


With the disappearance of the Assad regime from Syria last week, the Middle East, shorn of its last secular state, returns again to what it was before the last couple of centuries of combined Anglo and American hegemony — a reservoir of religiosity and tribal preeminence and a standing rebuke to the hyper-rationalism of the Western “Enlightenment.”

More than a century’s worth of effort by the mightiest empires in history failed to impose a way of life on people, nations and tribes who did not and do not want to emulate the United States or, before that, Britain.

Who can blame them? If your preferred way of life has to be exported at the barrel of a gun, what does that say about your way of life? The terrible truth is that the English-speaking world has much of which to be proud, but it has never quite accommodated itself to the fact that some people just are not interested in what it is selling.

The British, who once boasted that the sun never set on their empire, were particularly egregious in this regard, attempting to destroy any social arrangements they deemed unhelpful. Their American cousins have not been much better. If all you knew about the Enlightenment West was that it occasionally sent over soldiers to kill you and your friends, followed by real estate agents to take the land and a handful of missionaries who preached peace, you would be pretty jaded about the experience, too.

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