The West's hypocrisy: language has the power to mask the truth

Neither Kemal Ataturk, Adolf Hitler, Slobodan Milosevic or Saddam Hussein et al could have been able to extinguish millions of innocent lives without some form of acquiescence from western spin doctors.

The West continuously moans and groans about its so-called “higher” morals and values, about how its political institutions and media diversity are superior to those of the rest of the planet, about how it is the shining example of where everyone else should be. This argument has also been used to underline the current War on Terror, as the jihadist enemy we are told, despises all we stand for. US President Bush conveniently advises us that “our way of life threatens them”.

But maybe it’s not so much our way of life that threatens them, but our hypocrisy that feeds their anger and resentment - all potent recruiting tools in this New World Order.

Our moral superiority complex is proving to be nothing more than an illusion of its own making; a house of sand and fog that sits precariously on the precipice of its own arrogance; a fools’ paradise in which military expansionism has become the only way left of demonstrating its own ethical vacuum and moral demise and language is being used as a tool to cloak this gradual downfall.

Mercifully though, the countless victims of genocide from Auschwitz to Srebrenica, from Cambodia to Kosovo and from Darfur to Rwanda will never have to suffer the added pain and indignity of seeing how little their sacrifices amounted to and how today words are used for the same purpose as bullets were yesterday.