The entire Western world has suffered from a lack of moral authority for decades. Today, we in the West are reluctant to use our full military power or seek victory in war lest we appear imperialistic. We hesitate to enforce our borders lest we appear racist. We are reluctant to ask for assimilation from new immigrants (especially in Europe) lest we appear xenophobic. We are pained to give Western civilization primacy in our educational curricula lest we appear supremacist. In short, today the West is on the defensive, because the very legitimacy of our modern societies requires constant dissociation from the sins of the Western past - racism, economic exploitation, imperialism and so on. And, in the process, we’ve lost the ability to discern right from wrong. Nowhere is that more apparent than in the demonization, de-legitimization and the double standard applied against Israel in the international arena. FULL STORY
