Perilous Relativism

Not content with disparaging the decency and fair play of Britain's war on wogs, the United Nations has once more indicated its chronic unsuitability for world leadership by implying that even the heart of darkness has its reasons. Contradicting all that British pragmatism, American moralism and the transatlantic arms trade tell us concerning the innate evil of the terrorist, UN researchers working across eight countries have concluded that people tend to become susceptible to recruitment by extremists when they find themselves endangered by security forces and impoverished by wealth creators. Astoundingly, certain militant groups even stoop so low as to capitalise on these good intentions gone awry, by feeding their adherents and restoring a measure of order. It is fortunate that all eight of the countries surveyed were in Africa; otherwise one or two of the Free World's recent ventures in benevolence, with their tail-between-legs exit strategies, might have suffered some hurtful remarks.