Friday, September 23, 2005
Know Thine Enemy
Psst-want a real quagmire? Observe the antiwar left, whose media-celebrity heroes-du-jour Cindy She-hen and Fat Bastard Galloway want the U.S. to pull out of Iraq regardless of the obviously calamitous consequences. Mother Peace and thirty of her most exploitative friends are now in Washington to protest the war and generally carry on with their lunacy. They expect 100,000 fellow protesters to join them, but they won't be seeing these folks there. After all, the Democratic leadership may be crazy as a bunch of shithouse rats, but they're not stupid.
"'There are a lot of people here who are wondering, where are the Democrats?' said Tom Andrews, a former Democratic House member from Maine who's now the national director of Win Without War, one of several groups that are organizing three days of protests against the war in Washington starting Saturday."
I have a better question: Who is organizing and rallying behind their proxies, both willing and duped, gathering in Washington in the name of "peace"? The Washington Times has the answer:
The groups gathering in Washington this weekend to protest President Bush and the war in Iraq have ties to radical left-wing groups and communist organizations and have enjoyed the support of the left's biggest financial supporter, George Soros.
United for Peace and Justice (UPJ) and International Act Now to Stop War and End Racism (ANSWER) are the two main organizers of the weekend of events -- the first major public protest allowed to surround the White House in more than 10 years -- and expect 100,000 people from dozens of smaller left-wing and liberal organizations.
The leaders of ANSWER, founded three days after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, are connected to the Workers World Party, a Marxist group that has expressed support for such dictators as North Korea's Kim Jong-il, Yugoslavia's Slobodan Milosevic and Iraq's Saddam Hussein. The latter two have been ousted from power and jailed.
Other groups associated with ANSWER are the Free Palestine Alliance, U.S.-Mexico Solidarity Foundation and the Muslim Student Association of the U.S. and Canada.
Is it any wonder that the faces and names behind this event are the same ones who wanted Saddam Hussein left in power to begin with? Of course not, because these people are not just against the war in Iraq- they are anti-west and anti-democracy, Wahhabists, Bin Ladenists and remnants of the crash of World Communism who carry on the old Stalinist tradition of advocating for thug dictators and their brutal regimes. You'd think otherwise well-meaning people would be more careful about being used by the ones who would destroy their very society if given half a chance, but to be against this war one must already be afflicted with a certain level of naivete to begin with. Ed Morrissey says it best:
That doesn't mean that everyone who attends these rallies lacks sincerity in the message. It should warn them, though, that continued association with such groups will eventually destroy their credibility. Apologists for dictators do not have any moral standing for protesting American foreign policy. When groups like that discount 50 million people in Afghanistan and Iraq having the ability to select their own leaders and laws and would consign them to suffer under the brutality of strongman rule once more, they show themselves as the self-congratulatory, reactionary anti-Americans that they are.
That includes the fools who still think there is a middle ground in the war on Islamofascism.
"'There are a lot of people here who are wondering, where are the Democrats?' said Tom Andrews, a former Democratic House member from Maine who's now the national director of Win Without War, one of several groups that are organizing three days of protests against the war in Washington starting Saturday."
I have a better question: Who is organizing and rallying behind their proxies, both willing and duped, gathering in Washington in the name of "peace"? The Washington Times has the answer:
The groups gathering in Washington this weekend to protest President Bush and the war in Iraq have ties to radical left-wing groups and communist organizations and have enjoyed the support of the left's biggest financial supporter, George Soros.
United for Peace and Justice (UPJ) and International Act Now to Stop War and End Racism (ANSWER) are the two main organizers of the weekend of events -- the first major public protest allowed to surround the White House in more than 10 years -- and expect 100,000 people from dozens of smaller left-wing and liberal organizations.
The leaders of ANSWER, founded three days after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, are connected to the Workers World Party, a Marxist group that has expressed support for such dictators as North Korea's Kim Jong-il, Yugoslavia's Slobodan Milosevic and Iraq's Saddam Hussein. The latter two have been ousted from power and jailed.
Other groups associated with ANSWER are the Free Palestine Alliance, U.S.-Mexico Solidarity Foundation and the Muslim Student Association of the U.S. and Canada.
Is it any wonder that the faces and names behind this event are the same ones who wanted Saddam Hussein left in power to begin with? Of course not, because these people are not just against the war in Iraq- they are anti-west and anti-democracy, Wahhabists, Bin Ladenists and remnants of the crash of World Communism who carry on the old Stalinist tradition of advocating for thug dictators and their brutal regimes. You'd think otherwise well-meaning people would be more careful about being used by the ones who would destroy their very society if given half a chance, but to be against this war one must already be afflicted with a certain level of naivete to begin with. Ed Morrissey says it best:
That doesn't mean that everyone who attends these rallies lacks sincerity in the message. It should warn them, though, that continued association with such groups will eventually destroy their credibility. Apologists for dictators do not have any moral standing for protesting American foreign policy. When groups like that discount 50 million people in Afghanistan and Iraq having the ability to select their own leaders and laws and would consign them to suffer under the brutality of strongman rule once more, they show themselves as the self-congratulatory, reactionary anti-Americans that they are.
That includes the fools who still think there is a middle ground in the war on Islamofascism.
