Diana West’s worst day has arrived

Reported in today’s New York Post:

Petraeus sworn in as CIA director

WASHINGTON—Retired Gen. David Petraeus, the foremost spokesman of counterinsurgency warfare, a.k.a. “winning the hearts of minds of Muslims who are commanded by their god to hate our guts until the end of the world,” was sworn in as director of the CIA Tuesday, officially taking the reins of the intelligence agency as a civilian after 37 years of service in the military.

After he was sworn in by Vice President Joe Biden, Petraeus thanked President Barack Obama, who was not present, for showing his confidence in counterinsurgency warfare, or COIN, by appointing Petraeus to the top intelligence post.

The 58-year-old West Point graduate, who was dressed in a dark suit and maroon tie for the short White House ceremony, said that, based on discussions with President Obama, his mission as CIA director will be to make COIN the master concept for all U.S. dealings with Muslims. “Whether we encounter Muslims in the villages of Afghanistan, or in the ministries of the newly formed democratic government of Libya, or at an amusement park in upstate New York,” said Petraeus, “we must show them that we love them and wish to accommodate them and their culture and their religious beliefs in every way. This is the only way to defeat the violent radical extremism which led to the 9/11 tragedy.”

(The above, of course, is a parody. Here is the original article at the Post.)

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Diana West (whose writings on COIN and much else can be found here) writes:

I’m honored!

That parody quotation perfectly captures the policy of every Western government:

“Whether we encounter Muslims in the villages of Afghanistan, or in the ministries of the newly formed democratic government of Libya, or at an amusement park in upstate New York, we must show them that we love them and wish to accommodate them and their culture and their religious beliefs in every way. This is the only way to defeat the violent radical extremism which led to the 9/11 tragedy.”

Posted by Lawrence Auster at September 06, 2011 01:10 PM | Send