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That kind of blindness to the obvious (which was what I was primarily angry about) is caused, not by a failure the information stream or in the intellect, but in the soul. It is a classic example of sin making you stupid. They had an ideological commitment\u2013a commitment that remains intact at this hour\u2013to the notion of our messianic mission to bring uplift to the Islamic world through post-Christian democratic capitalism (all under the careful managed control of our Caesaroligarchic Ruling Class, of course). That ideological commitment blinded them to the warning signs and continues to blind them, persuading them that this obviously coordinated and premeditated attack was spontaneous and not fed by deep wells of resentment across the Islamosphere.<\/p>\n

Good luck with that.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, mea culpa for buying the story that prompted the post. I\u2019m stupid.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"