There is talk of further talks with Iran today in the headlines. Lest we delude ourselves into believing they might lead somewhere, here’s a trenchant essay on peace-mongering by Daniel Greenfield, aka “Sultan Knish”.

An excerpt:

“Peace happens when ordinary people of goodwill under the leadership of a few enlightened peacemongers get together and realize how much they have in common and that any disputes they have can be settled over some coffee or tea.

“No mythical ideal propounded by the postmoderns is quite as dully stupid and thoroughly delusional as this one. It is progressive in its insistence that we are all alike because we are human and that being the same means that there is no reason for conflict. Its irrational insistence that war is irrational perfectly captures the false reason of progressive paradigms which treat their own philosophical constructs as more real than reality.”