perfidy

This came out Monday, so excuse my tardiness. A lot of people have linked to it, but if I can't be redundant here, where can I be? Christopher Hitchens is without doubt my favorite liberal. He is also the only well known liberal that I have ever personally met. He is much shorter in person. He had this to say about the recent demonstration in Washington:

To be against war and militarism, in the tradition of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, is one thing. But to have a record of consistent support for war and militarism, from the Red Army in Eastern Europe to the Serbian ethnic cleansers and the Taliban, is quite another. It is really a disgrace that the liberal press refers to such enemies of liberalism as "antiwar" when in reality they are straight-out pro-war, but on the other side. Was there a single placard saying, "No to Jihad"? Of course not. Or a single placard saying, "Yes to Kurdish self-determination" or "We support Afghan women's struggle"? Don't make me laugh. And this in a week when Afghans went back to the polls, and when Iraqis were preparing to do so, under a hail of fire from those who blow up mosques and U.N. buildings, behead aid workers and journalists, proclaim fatwahs against the wrong kind of Muslim, and utter hysterical diatribes against Jews and Hindus.

Some of the leading figures in this "movement," such as George Galloway and Michael Moore, are obnoxious enough to come right out and say that they support the Baathist-jihadist alliance. Others prefer to declare their sympathy in more surreptitious fashion. The easy way to tell what's going on is this: Just listen until they start to criticize such gangsters even a little, and then wait a few seconds before the speaker says that, bad as these people are, they were invented or created by the United States. That bad, huh? (You might think that such an accusation—these thugs were cloned by the American empire for God's sake—would lead to instant condemnation. But if you thought that, gentle reader, you would be wrong.)

This is not to say that there can't be meaningful criticisms of the war, or of the way it is being conducted. But that is not what these people are about. I saw a car Saturday - likely on his way down to the big fashion meet - with an upside down flag hanging from the antenna. I am a peaceful man, but I wanted to run that asshole off the road, and then beat him senseless with a baseball bat. Far to many of these sub-morons simply do not understand, well, anything. About what America is, or what the terrorists are, or about what liberty might actually mean, or what many have sacrificed to preserve and extend it. And how they expect to convince others with their asinine slogans and offensive theatrics is completely beyond my comprehension.