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HuffPo Blogger Gives Left What's What On IraqTish Durkin seems to be a reasonable liberal. Here she reads the unreasonable lefties the riot act. Though she also vows she'd give righties the same treatement were she addressing war supporters, at least the left gets to hear this for once. She questions their patriotism: she calls them out for actively praying for defeat and American military and Iraqi civilian deaths. Maybe it's just the contrarian in me, but it is these other things that I feel the need to stress, especially to those who are now reveling in their rightness about the war. Those who opposed the war seem to feel that they are the perfect opposite of those who sold the war - and of course, in the important sense of the invade-or-not-to-invade question, they are. But in their collective allergy to any fact that may complicate their position; their proud blindness to the color gray, and their fervent faith in their own infallibility, the two sides have always struck me as very much the same. Read the whole thing. One point she makes, which I'll just paraphrase as I've quoted so much, is that lefties' simplistic fantasies about Bush/Cheney being the root of evil neatly disobligates lefties from thinking very hard about war -- when is it necessary, under what circumstances, what actions may a tyrant take to revoke his cherished national sovereignty, etc. By simply repeating the mantra "Bush, Cheney, neocon, Halliborton, blood for oil," liberals answer the above questions with childish reductivism: Just elect someone who's not pure evil like Bush, and all the thorny problems of war and peace go away. The comments are fairly predictable. In between liberals claiming of course they root for America in its wars are other liberals claiming they've been forced to root for America's enemies... by Bush and the right, of course, who are also guilty of making them treasonous in thought. Here's one guy: I agree that there are some anti-war activists who want to see Iraq get worse and worse -- this is certainly childish and counterproductive. The thing is, I can't blame them. He allows the left are partly to blame, and then offers the curious assertion that the left is no stranger to self-criticism. If only. But then he concludes, of course, that he simply has no feeling left to care much what happens in Iraq, because the "war" at home so dominates his emotions. Merely rooting for one's enemies (without taking tangible treasonous action to aid them) may not actually result in any real-world ill. Of course our enemies know there is a large-ish fifth column in America who are essentially their stateside cheering section, and those cheers both boost our enemies' morale and reduce that of our own troops, but a lefty can claim that that is a natural consequence of Bush's warmongering and so is hardly their fault. (That is, after they got done denying every premise and sub-premise of the statement.) But whether this praying for American death and defeat actually has any consequence besides the inevitable corruption of the spirit, it does, inarguably, make it rather difficult to take the left's criticism seriously. Serious criticism -- constructive, reasonable criticism -- would start with the premise that it is important for America to win (or at least not lose as badly, if indeed that is inevitable) and offer suggestions as to how to accomplish that. But the left does not start with that premise, even if they claim they do. They actively desire an American defeat, to defeat Bush politically and to chasten the American people so that they do not make war on a kite-flying sovereign peaceful murderous tyranny again. So it's a bit impossible to have any real give and take with them -- it woud be like a football coach asking his opponent what his best strategy might be. Obviously, the opponent is not going to give him a straight answer to that question, because he's invested in the first coach's defeat. Nearly as invested, in fact, as the left is in American death, defeat, repudiation, and humiliation. More Patriotism! This commenter was all for deposing dictators... until Bush tried it: I had always wanted America to be the world's policeman; sending in troops to depose dictators of all stripes, then a diplomatic corps to re-build government and infrastructure. To allow the people of sudanburmarhodesia wherever, a chance to determine their own fates. Nuance! The fact is that the left has always made very idealistic noises as regards foreign policy -- usually as a club to bash the US with for so much as tolerating corrupt tyrannies, as if we had to the power to advance foreign countries' politics by a full milennium and make them all democratic and peaceful and just. They were idealistic, at least in cant, that is, until Bush and his warmongering neocons championed idealism. Then suddenly they became Kissingerian realpolitikers overnight. Except when they're not, of course. The left still criticizes the US for dealing with nasty regimes like Sadui Arabia and Pakistan. What, precisely, are they suggesting? That we invade those countries as well? What, exactly? | Recent Comments
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