The War on the West

by Douglas Murray

Naturally, despots who have immiserated their own countries have a clear reason for blaming imperialism for all ills that currently beset their countries. But the only other group to join them in doing so are a portion of people in the West themselves. People who believe that the history of the world is a history of Western malfeasance and non-Western innocence. As well as being an insultingly partial history, it is also one that has absolutely no sense of global or historical perspective. And there is an obvious reason for that. In order to be able to judge the West, you would have to know at least some of the history of the rest. The only thing modern Western populations are more ignorant about than their own history is the history of other peoples outside the West. Yet such knowledge is surely a prerequisite to being able to arrive at any moral judgments.