"Western Guilt"

And so we have Islamic fascists exploiting the postmodern rhetorical assumptions of a western socialist / progressivist left in order to bring about the spread of totalitarianism.

Jeff Goldstein's summation of the nature of these widdle world event thingies that end up in hurling bombs and testing nukes and wiping out countries, yadda, yadda, yadda. No big whup.