Naming the guilty

February 26, 2026

John's article has the temerity to name western responsibility for the vast growth of terrorism around the planet. Both that terrorism committed directly by the west, which incidentally has a long and bloody pedigree stretching back to the creation of those western colonial empires, and the terrorism created in the Islamic world by our hubris, greed and sheer stupidity, are direct consequences of a western racism and insidious belief in Caucasion superiority over the rest of humanity.

These are all markers of an empire in terminal decline. At several isolated historical points we could reasonably have claimed to have been a civilisational empire, but these were few and far between and were interspersed by vast periods of savagery, greed and complete moral vacuity where overwhelming primitivism gave the lie our belief that we were ever a civilisation. John has accurately assessed our responsibility for counter-violence against us. But will our “leaders” acknowledge his perspicacity or simply consign it to Orwell’s memory hole???