From Mr Herb Greer Sir: One year on my anger
is still intact. If anything it is stronger. But my deepest cold rage is reserved not for those who carried out the attacks. or even for their supporters in the Middle East, but for those who belong to our world and yet, by the twisted logic of what looks very much like selfhatred, insist that everything that happened last September was no more or less than what the Yanks had coming. These people are sucking up the benefits of Western civilisation that the Americans have developed to its highest pitch. Wearing a fake tinselled costume of 'conscience', these 'beautiful people', these sanctimonious excuses for journalists, these self-serving and hypocritical politicians have peddled the line that every evil in the contemporary world is to be laid exclusively at America's
doAcircording to these self-appointed judges, America has brought no benefits into the world, shown no generosity of spirit, helped no one, given nothing, offered nothing to the rest of the world but an orgy of selfinterest, corruption, pain, and a veritable supermarket shopping list of evils, ranging from the peccadilloes of insensitive tourists to the shark-like behaviour of certain businessmen (something, of course, never, ever seen among non-Americans) and overweening military force.
It is difficult to find language foul enough to describe such people. One can name some among not a few others: Susan Sontag and her ilk in New York, the serried ranks of Guardian writers in London, fronted by the egregious George Monbiot, the usual suspects among leftwing MPs, and the anonymous, sneakily pleased and self-righteous ranks of America-haters on the continent of Europe, whose accomplishments in living memory include the second world war and the Holocaust: these are the moral custodians who judge the United States. Quis custodiet, indeed.
Herb Greer
Salisbury, Wiltshire
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