This is where I think Larry Auster’s description of the liberalism as a type of disease process or, more accurately, a narcotic intoxication is particularly valuable. Liberalism has become so thoroughly ingrained in western thought that it would take something truly horrific to shake western people from their present state of complacent suicidal insanity. Israel, the youngest western nation-state, is displaying the progression of this disease with an unexpected and alarming rapidity.

The election of a man like Olmert would have been inconceivable even 15 years ago. [I’m not sure about that: Israel has had the leftist Labor in power before.] Today, it is not completely unthinkable that the Israelis would one day acquiesce to a UN/Baker/Bush scheme to allow the ‘Palestinians’ the “right of return” into Israel proper, which would effectively abolish Israel as a nation, as part of some ‘comprehensive peace program’ for the region.

Such “magical thinking” infects not only the leaders, but large swaths of the people they lead. BTW, I do not hold the position that mental illness completely absolves one of all moral responsibility (as in the insanity defense for murder one encounters from time to time). It may be reasonably counted as a mitigating factor in determining severity of punishment, but nothing more. [For my perspective see “Trading Morality for Medical Mumbo-Jumbo” and “Broken Brains?“] You’re right to point out the falseness of the idea that every evil is a disease in need of ‘treatment’, though. That is yet another example of the pervasiveness of liberal thinking.

Since that has blown up in our face (literally), we’re now into a new “pragmatism” at the behest of Papa Bush’s longtime cronies, which roughly translates into ‘Let’s sit down for some nice diplomat chit-chat with ‘Mad Johnny’ (the nascent 12th Imam) and other assorted thugs so that we can politely ask them to let us dhimmis withdraw from without too much further molestation from the mujahedin (and embarrassment for us). At the same time, we’ll tie Israel into the whole Iraq issue (with the implicit promise to pull Olmert’s strings into giving even more land and assorted concessions to the ‘Palestinians’). Leaving Gaza worked so well for the Israelis, after all. How could they turn down such a great opportunity?

The towering hubris of these fools is exceeded only by their ignorance and stupidity.

The ones that still (sort of) surprise me here are the boble-head figures who presently run Israel. I would have hoped, with all the jihad-inspired mayhem right their in their midst, that there would be sufficient numbers of Israelis who understood the difference between reality vs. fantasy – unwilling to follow charlatans like Olmert down that well-paved road to you-know-where. Michael Savage nailed it: Liberalism is indeed a mental illness. [We disagree; that implies a lack of responsibility for their actions] A 12-step program is needed for all westerners, Israelis included. Let’s call it Dhimmis Anonymous! [Punishment, not “treatment,” is the proper solution for treason.]

[Well said. See “Libertarians Who Loathe Israel“ and “Foaming at the Mouth Over Israel.” Still, I never hear libertarians call for ending aid to the Arab countries, much less mention the obscene amounts of money we give to the savage Palestinians.]

Please read ‘At Least Saddam Kept Order‘ and ‘Conservatives in Name Only’