Western Delusions

Reader comment on item: Korean Delusions [of Appeasement]

Submitted by Adam Greaves (Saudi Arabia), Oct 9, 2002 at 08:34

"An inability to imagine evil: citizens of successful states mirror-image and assume that the other side could not be that different from their own. Self-recrimination: a tendency to blame oneself for a foe's persistent enmity. "

These two phenomena also characterise the way Christians and Westerners in general behave towards Muslims and Africans.

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