The French word debacle contains an ancient wisdom that applies to the entire region that we call the Middle East. The Latin origin of the word is bacillus, or little stick, which is also the word we give to tiny germs. If you remove a single stick from – or if you like, de-stick – a dam, what too often results is the collapse of the entire structure. Yes, a debacle.
The fall of the Alawite regime in Syria has de-sticked the Damascus dam. Unspeakable horrors now await the entire region, with the backwash from this debacle soon to be hitting Europe’s shores. However, since this country seems almost pathologically incapable of having any sort of adult conversation about immigration without anointing irrational left-liberal multiculturalists as our moral arbiters in such matters, we might now be in for one hell of a holier-then-thouness treat. Parading our sanctimony is now part of the official national religion of secular Ireland. Sooner or later, we are going to get our own (and much-deserved) debacle.
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