For those wondering about how the far left “supports the troops,” exhibit A is available in Monday’s New York Times. A full page ad bought by MoveOn.org is running under the following title: “General Petraeus or General Betray us? Cooking the books for the White House.”
Sadly, these terminally misguided Americans’ slandering of a man who has served his country for 35 years is par for the course. Despite 9/11, and the raft of other terrorist atrocities around the world, radical leftists continue to promote one of the most odious ideologies on the planet, the ugliest componet of which is a “Hierarchy of Hatred.” To wit, in order:
1. George W. Bush. That would be number one with a bullet. No one is more reviled, demeaned or denigrated than the current president of the United States.
2. The Republican Party. The Republican party is a conglomeration of warmongers, stupid red-necks, religious fanatics, bigots, racists and homophobes.
3. The military. The operational arm of “Imperial America” which commits atrocities on a regular basis, is incapable of achieving anything resembling a victory, and, if the above ad is any indication, contains traitorous lackeys for the “biggest terrorist on the planet” and his administration.
4. Multi-national corporations. The reason we’re at war has virtually nothing to do with Islamic terrorism, which is a “bumper sticker slogan.” It is all about ensuring big profits for “Bushitlerhaliburton,” the oil companies, and their well-connected friends. Our troops are little more than cannon fodder for these nefarious titans of industry, too “stupid” to be anywhere else but “stuck in Iraq.”
I’d like to believe the far left also hates Osama Bin Laden and Islamo-fascists. But the terror leader and his organization seem to be afterthoughts at best. And when the “Rosie O’ Radicals” express ideas such as 9/11 was “an inside job,” or “payback” for our “rotten” foreign policy, when they say “all war is immoral,” or make every attempt to equate innumerable al Qaeda atrocities with miniscule numbers of our own wrongdoings, their feelings appear to be–at best–conflicted.
Or are they? Has MoveOn.org ever run a full page ad in the New York Times condemning Osama bin Laden, Saddam Hussein, the Taliban or any other terrorist thugs or their organizations? Has the far left ever said that the war on terror is a fight we can’t afford to lose? I once wrote a column for the New York Post in which I asked the following question: would you be willing to lose the war on terror provided George W. Bush got the blame? Sad to report, there were respondents who answered “yes.”
You can bet your life they weren’t conservatives.
Doubtless there are moderates on the left who cringe when they hear the rantings of the zealots. But looking from the outside in, a question arises: which faction is running the show? All liberals should give careful consideration as to where organizatons like MoveOn.org, and its chief supporter, George Soros, are taking them. There is a huge difference between respectfully diagreeing with Gen. Petraeus’ characterization of the Iraq war, or president’s strategy–and calling one a traitor and the other a terrorist.
It may very well be the difference between political credibility–and political oblivion.
e-mail: atahlert@comcast.net
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