Efter at The Telegraph har droppet Mark Steyn, har jeg droppet dem og læser i stedet The Times som mit valg af et britisk centrum-højre MSM (med The Guardian som et centrum-venstre).

The Times har, hvad der nu er blevet fashionabelt blandt MSM, sin egen weblog ved David Aaronovitch. Den kan anbefales, hvad der hermed er gjort.

Dagens blog handler om nogle venstreorienteredes ønske om at bortforklare ubekvemme udsagn fra islamister, så deres* foretrukne verdensorden, hvor “Vesten” er årsagen til og resultatet af alt ondt, kan opretholdes. Det gælder i forhold til selvmordsterroristerne fra 7/7, og det gælder i forhold til Irans præsident Armageddonoutofhere, som Steyn vist kalder ham.

(* Med “deres” menes begge parter)

Her er slutsekvensen, men læs selv her:

Of course, it could all just be nonsense, as it wasn’t with al-Faisal and Abu Hamza. But it does remind me of these words from David Edgar’s play Albert Speer. The dead Hitler is reproving the dying Speer. “Why,” he demands, “did you insist that anti-Semitism was ‘a vulgar incidental’? I said it — clearly time and time again. I didn’t say ‘resettlement’ or ‘cleaning efforts’. I did not speak of ‘special handling’. And yet you all insist that when I said the Jews must be destroyed, I only meant ‘defeated’. That when I said ‘eliminate’ I didn’t mean ‘exterminate’, I only meant ‘exclude’. That when I said ‘purge’ and ‘perish’ and ‘annihilate’ it was, of course, a metaphor. Why was I cursed with never being taken literally? How could the world have been so blind? And how could you?” Well?

Well indeed.