Universal power versus a human world

Regarding James Pinkerton’s article “The Once & Future Christendom,” Randall Parker writes:

Separationism keeps growing in popularity as the most reasonable response to Islam.

In connection with Pinkerton’s application of Tolkien’s themes to the problems of foreign policy and war, Parker continues:

Why haven’t we separated ourselves fully from the Muslims? The temptation of greater power. We have hubris to think that we can unite the entire world in our own universalist vision.

An interesting way of seeing it. It’s not so much the universal equality that the neocons believe in, but in their own role as its promoters and organizers.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at September 22, 2007 09:49 PM | Send