Moral vacuity writ large

April 14, 2026

“I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition” MacBeth(1.7.25–27). “The world’s most moral army” has deliberately slaughtered more children in Gaza, the West Bank, Syria, Lebanon, Iran and other countries in the Middle East than any other army in human memory, with the possible exception of the US. It’s morality extending to holding competitions to see how many kids each soldier can snipe in the head or in the groin. These are facts confirmed by official investigations by the UN. Yet the governments of the morally “superior” west have simply consigned this obscene criminality to Orwell’s “memory hole’. As Hannah Arendt observed, evil in that western moral void is banal, except when it can be attributed to our enemies, when it is used to justify overturning of governments which are alleged to have done what we ourselves are guilty of, mostly without the inconvenience of any evidence. But as Thucydides wrote in the 5th century BCE in his History of the Peloponnesian War, “the Strong do as they will, while the weak suffer what they must”. That has pretty much been the practice of the west ever since!!