The ever-prescient Victor David Hanson identifies the fundamental driver behind the unhinged hatred of America and Israel that has convulsed the left in America and much of Britain (see item below). The current irrational hate-fest is the apogee of the post-modernism and cultural relativism that has more generally destroyed moral authority and opened the way to lies, indifference and inhumanity. As Hanson says in his fourth article on 'The Perfect Storm':

'So the current conflict against terror is the perfect postmodern storm, drawing into its whirl all the pathologies of the last thirty years to unleash a vehemence not experienced in recent political memory. The horror of 9-11, the public fatwas of Osama bin Laden, and Saddam’s prior crimes against humanity are merely problematic. Instead, we see a powerful United States, bullying indigenous people sitting atop oil resources in the Middle East, and bombing the long-suffering victims of colonialism and Zionism.

'All you need to know is that we need oil, and that the impoverished Muslims of the Middle East have it. Why worry over the validity of the plots on an Afghanistan pipeline, a mysterious Bush-House of Saud conspiracy, or Dick Cheney’s Halliburton oil grab? They are simply competing discourses that compete with a purportedly dominant narrative of sky-high gas prices as a result of a cartel’s jacked-up petroleum, the entry of a Westernized and oil thirsty India and China into the global market, or a Hugo Chavez now gleeful over his new petroleum-fed notoriety. You can find the truth of the two conflicting discourses not by facts, but only by looking to see who is Western and powerful and who is not.'

The result is the madness now engulfing Britain, the American left and much of European political discourse.