You write:
Absolutely, and it is all the more vicious when one displays the deepest contempt towards the civilization that produces these equipments that one uses.
The vice is certainly not there, because it is only the expression of mimetic rivalry which supposes this apparent contradiction: we want what the other has (and for this reason only), but cannot fully access it , we try to denigrate it. In this denigration, we must see on the contrary an underlying celebration.
As long as you specifically target innocent people ...
Of your own culture or not is not an ethical criterion, the means differ due to the respective ideological positions: in its time the West has often sat down on moral considerations, even if it means bringing them out when necessary made more felt. Anyway, the West needs an enemy and the fact that it subsidizes it and the weapon is not trivial ... (there is no more USSR).
Culture has a good game in there, what matters is the economy (the role of culture is therefore indirect), but by definition the "success" of one supposes the elimination of the other. . China is beginning to bear the brunt of it: copying a model that no longer worked in the West, it initially succeeded magnificently, due to cheap labor and zero environmental constraints (not taken into account negative externalities), but this is a success Pyrrhus, because the same causes have the same effects, with only the delay due to these factors mentioned. Today, China is mired in an export-oriented economy, totally linked to stagnating foreign markets and incapable of turning to its own domestic market, despite the pious wishes and incantations of the leaders.
A fortiori, no place remains for Muslim countries and the revival of religious exaltation, far from being a cause, is a consequence.
