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In whispered tones, by the light of a candle by the altar, under the gaze of the man from Nazareth, he told the abbot what he had done.
terrorism came from the minds of the comfortably raised, well-educated, middle-class theorists with a truly staggering personal vanity and a developed taste for self-indulgence.
But the hatred came first, then the cause, then the target, then the methods, and finally the self-justification. And Lenin’s “useful dupes” always swallowed it.
It mattered not whether their hatred of Americans and Jews was secular based or religiously fueled. There was nothing, absolutely nothing that America or Israel could do, short of complete self-annihilation, that would even begin to appease or satisfy them.
They hated his country, not for what it did, but for what it was.
The working class of the Third World does not hate you; it is the pseudo-intellectuals. If they ever forgive you, they must indict themselves.
