September 11th: Moral Clarity and the War on Terror

More than anything, September 11th exposed the utter unreality and moral bankruptcy of cultural relativism.

by Rod D. Martin
September 11, 2007

There are certain events that seem to alter history's course irrevocably. Radical Islam's unspeakable attack on our homeland and its depraved slaughter of our civilians five years ago is a prime candidate.

More than anything, September 11th exposed the utter unreality and moral bankruptcy of cultural relativism, the refusal to render moral judgments on societies -- especially non-Western ones -- and their beliefs.

Relativists made significant inroads after the Vietnam War, a conflict which gave the hard Left a pretext to blur the distinction in foreign policy between good and evil, freedom and slavery, Jefferson and Marx, America and her enemies.

This post-Vietnam War Syndrome was to a large degree countered by Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, as the Iron Curtain fell and the Berlin Wall was obliterated. A Left which had actively supported communism as the way of the future and which had frequently condemned America as more imperialistic, more decaden…