Iraq

It is just amazing that the press still manages to frame the insurgency as being motivated by animus agianst us. Can they possibly believe that the people running around blowing stuff up there want democracy and self-determination for the people of Iraq? Surely it is obvious by now that what they want is a return, a return either to a dictatorship or the 13th century.

What is their carping criticism in service of? Do they want the United Nations to run things? as if the UN would stand up to suicide bombers and Islamists? Do they really want another thug that would get along with the Arab league?

Well, of course, they aren't for anything, all they are for is seeing the US lose. They don't have to propose anything. that is the great advantage of peace activism. the left has never felt obligated to say what it is they would be for, not in any serious way. They don't have to say what the jews should have done in Hitler's Germany and they don't have to in Iraq. They believe that we, the powerful, are the root of all evil. If we stop fighting/exploiting/whatever the hell it is that we do which is somehow the ultimate explanation for all the world's troubles then in the long run everything will be alright. Of course the medium term, say the next four of five years, may see a temporary worsening of the situation, but that is only part of our penance.

It is just that the medium term is the final term for those who don't have the privilege living behind the great exploiter's armies.