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Senator John McCain at the U.S. Naval Academy Will
they fool us twice, Look
who's waving the flag now, Welcome
back, Duke Towers
of intellect The
flag in new light, Living a new normal,
The agony
of the left, Lack
of outrage, Examining
some of the anti-American comments since September 11, The
kids are alright, but too many professors hate America Preemptive Peace by Chris Mooney (The American Prospect) |
"But with Osama bin Laden, and the Islamo-fascism of the Taliban, no such delusions are possible. The American liberal mind has long believed that their prime enemy in America is the religious right. But if Jerry Falwell is the religious right, what does that make the Taliban? They subjugate women with a brutality rare even in the Muslim world; they despise Jews; they execute homosexuals by throwing them from very high buildings or crushing them underneath stone walls. There is literally nothing that the left can credibly cling to in rationalizing support for these hate-filled fanatics. "This is therefore an excruciating moment for the postmodern, postcolonial left. They may actually have come across an enemy that even they cannot argue is morally superior to the West. You see this discomfort in the silence of the protestors in Washington, who simply never raised the issue of bin Laden's ideology.… "The left's howls of anguish are therefore essentially phony--and
they stem from a growing realization that this crisis has largely destroyed
the credibility of the far left. Forced to choose between the West and
the Taliban, the hard left simply cannot decide. Far from concealing this
ideological bankruptcy, we need to expose it and condemn it as widely
and as irrevocably as we can. Many liberals are already listening and
watching--and the tectonic plates of politics are shifting as they do."
"After we attack the Taliban and the terrorists strike us again,
you know what’s going to happen. A big old-fashioned peace movement will
emerge that blames the United States for whatever further destruction
is inflicted. We’ll be told that we 'prompted' or 'provoked' the gas attack,
football-stadium bombing, assassination attempt, whatever. How do I know?
Because a sizable chunk of what passes for the left is already knee-deep
in ignorant and dangerous appeasement of the terrorism of Sept. 11. While
moderate liberals (and even Christopher Hitchens) seem to get who the
bad guys are, some of their brethren farther left—especially on college
campuses—are unforgivably out to lunch." "A minister at the prayer service at the University last Wednesday told the audience to pray that the government remains peaceful and doesn't attack anyone else. Although we've all been brought up wanting world peace, I will not pray for pacifism. I'll pray against it. As a 5'5" female English major and French minor, I hardly have the mindset of a warlord. But I will wear my red, white and blue, I will revere our flag flowing in the wind and hold in contempt the terrorists who attacked the wrong country. "Believe whatever you want, cower at our patriotism, but unless
you have a close friend with a father who drove her to school every morning
and tucked her in at night and whose day was interrupted by a 757 smashing
into his office, driving temperatures up to 1500 degrees and hurling him
and his co-workers out through the walls, just don't tell me about your
political correctness. I won't be listening." |
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POLITICAL
CULTURE