Melanie Phillips has quite a bit to say about the disgusting way the world has been lavishing praise on Yasser Arafat. Her closing is very depressing. It's also right on target:
The reaction of the free world to Arafat's death, along with the opprobium heaped daily upon his victims in Israel, illustrates the decadence that now rewards evil and punishes those whom it terrorises. It is a horrifying indication of a world that has simply lost its fundamental understanding of right and wrong. All who value life, liberty and justice should take careful note and shudder at this moral -- and mortal -- sickness. This is the way a civilisation dies.
Yes, it is. All civilizations die eventually. It is the way of things. But if we lose all perspective of right and wrong, the fall will come much faster and much harder.
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