What? Apparently, Diana was right all along:

[...] Bush is not really serious about effectively prosecuting his war on terror. Despite regime change in both Afghanistan and Iraq, he's been pussyfooting around over the past three years, consistently conceding moral ground to the enemy, to the purveyors of the violent, oppressive, and primitivist ideology that is militant Islam. From what I've seen, I suspect part of the reason to be moral relativism.

... moral relativism denies the possibility of universal ethical truths. Because different cultures have different moral codes, morality is said to be nothing but a matter of cultural opinion. Understanding, tolerance, and accommodation of the beliefs and practices of others are upheld as of paramount importance. ... just because people disagree about ethical principles doesn't imply that all are equally valid. Some people and some principles might just be wrong.

[...] what do I mean when I say that President Bush's policies regarding militant Islam are influenced by moral relativism? I mean that apart from matters of violence, he is unwilling to defend the fundamental values of Western culture as superior to those which presently dominate the Middle East, including militant Islam. When it comes to Western modernism, this-worldliness, rationality, individualism, and secularism versus Islamist primitivism, death-worship, mysticism, tribalism, and theocracy, President Bush is equivocal. How so?

As members of al-Qaeda, the 9/11 hijackers were motivated by militant Islam, a totalitarian ideology which seeks to destroy America by transforming it into autocratic Islamist state. Yet the Bush Administration has consistently refused to identify Islam as playing any role in the present conflict. Our response to 9/11 is defined in vague terms as part of a "war on terror" -- even though terrorism is just a martial tactic, not a definite enemy to destroy. President Bush explicitly denies that the war on terror is "a war of religion, in any way, shape, or form" -- as if the 9/11 hijackers had no religious ideology whatsoever. His administration bends over backwards to present Islam in a positive light though vague blandishments like that from a State Department official: "Islam, like Christianity and Judaism, preaches peace and nonviolence." Multiple Bush Administration officials have flatly denied any clash of civilizations between West and East, often insisting that Islam is quite consistent with Western values. Similarly, President Bush insists -- without debate or argument -- that the violence of terrorism is a perversion of Islam. The Bush Administration routinely seeks to reassure American Muslims of our friendliness toward their religion, without ever asking that they publicly renounce or discourage violence, hatred of America, or militant Islam. President Bush has treated freedom as a self-evident and universal value, even though the freedom sought by far too many Muslims is the "freedom" to oppress and dominate their neighbor with religious law. In Iraq, our military has been reluctant to bomb or shoot into mosques used as cover by militants out of respect for Islamic holy sites, even though that policy risks American lives by providing the enemy with safe haven. All in all, it seems that the Bush Administration mostly objects to the violent methods of the 9/11 hijackers, not their goal of transforming America into an Islamist state.

And insofar as the matter of "Not their goal of transforming America into an Islamist state," goes, apparently Bush has no problem with the Palestinians eliminating Israel and turning it into an Islamist state.

Clearly, except to Bush, the idea that both sides in the Palestinian's war against Israel are equally to blame for the current violence is totally absurd. The violence has one cause, and one cause only - Palestinian terrorism. It has turned out that Bush, after all, is indeed a moral relativist. As Diana notes in her piece, written in 2004 - "From the perspective of cultural objectivism, either you're with us or you're against us -- and it's time for President Bush to choose sides."

"W" STANDS FOR WIMP.

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