In the process of liberating other people, especially women, in a faraway country from bearded “terrorists”/“insurgents”, some of our heroic boys exercising their duty under extreme pressure make mistakes. When Muslims attack us in Paris or London, they are terrorists and Jihadis. A flood of articles, hourly updates and eye-witnesses’ accounts, repeated news items and pictures, When “our soldiers” (good Jihadis) execute civilians they act in “self-defence” and barely anyone hears about it. Did UK Special Forces execute unarmed civilians?
“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.” —Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilisation and the Remaking of the World Order, 1996, p. 51