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Yong Tang: In such sense, do you think America should be the leader of the world?

Bennett: No, I don't think the U.S. should be the leader of the world. My job is helping my readers trying to understand what is happening now. What is happening now is very difficult to understand. The world is very complex. There are various complex forces occurring in it. I don't think you can imagine a world where one country or one group of people could lead everybody else. I can't imagine that could happen. I also think it is unhealthy to have one country as the leader of the world. People in other countries don't want to be led by foreign countries. They may want to have good relations with it or they may want to share with what is good in that country. That is also a sort of colonial question. The world has gone through colonialism and imperialism. We have seen the danger and shortcomings of those systems. If we are heading into another period of imperialism where the US thinks itself as the leader of the area and its interest should prevail over all other interests of its neighbors and others, then I think the world will be in an unhappy period.

Obviously, this is enough to send even the most passive member of the right-leaning citizenry into a state of blinding rage. But let’s look at the more philosophical side of this interview in the passage that follows:

Yong Tang: So the world order should be democratic?

Bennett: Democracy means many things. How do you define democracy? As a Chinese journalist, you may have your own definition of democracy which corresponds to your history and your way of seeing the world. I may have another definition. Someone else may have their own definitions. Democracy means a lot of different things. Let me give an example. Democracy in one sense means the majority decides, but it also means the rights of the minority are protected. As UK late Prime Minister Winston Churchill said, democracy is the least bad system that we have ever thought of. So democracy is never perfect. It always has problems. Our democracy here in the US has many contradictions, problems and challenges. So democracy is not a cure that could turn everything bad into good. It has its own advantages and its disadvantages.

This is a classic example of Post-Modernist thought. A dangerous school of philosophy that has shaped the minds of men like Pol Pot, Post-Modernism is prevalent amongst the “great minds” of the MSM. Bennett shows this clearly in the previous passage. Says Bennett, “Democracy means many things. How do you define democracy?” Democracy has only one definition: free, fair multi-party elections (the kind of elections they don’t have in China).

There is no right, there is no wrong, it’s all a matter of perspective. That is what the post-modernists preach, and that, it seems, is what Mr. Bennett, the voice of the Washington Post, preaches. This is one of the many reasons that George W. Bush is so unpopular with the MSM. President Bush is a man who has made such bold statements as: "It is always and everywhere wrong to target and kill the innocent. It is always and everywhere wrong to be cruel and hateful, to enslave and oppress. It is always and everywhere right to be kind and just, to protect the lives of others, and to lay down your life for a friend."

Always and everywhere wrong. It is this philosophy and the philosophy of Philip Bennett that make up the two camps that will battle for the future of the 21st century.

Jim Rose blogs at Jim-Rose.com.