Posted on 10/31/2003 10:44:05 AM PST by GraniteStateConservative
"I want one person to dare to write to this newspaper and say with a straight face and a clear conscience that the Iraqi people would be better off now if we had left Saddam Hussein in power. Just one.” Johann Hari, the Independent (via Michael Totten)I would go one step further and ask the Democratic Presidential candidates to dare to say with a straight face and a clear conscience that the Iraqi people would be better off now if we had left Saddam Hussein in power, because they are coming way too close (for and to Comfort) to saying that these days. Clark literally said that “this war was unnecessary”.
I have to say that I agree with Roger Simon and the Democratic Senator Zell Miller on this one. Unless the delusions of the far “left” stop infecting these candidates, unless they stop hallucinating that Iraq is Vietnam, unless they get off the opportunists bus they’re riding on, unless they see that the (party) problems of nine little candidates don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world, and if the election were held today, even though I disagree with Bush domestically, I would have to vote for George W. Bush. No contest.
These guys, as well as the rest of the American and European “left”, are profoundly far away from reality. “Conservatives believe it when they see it and Liberals see it when they believe it”* is horrifically appropriate these days. This period will be written about as the era that the “left” totally abandoned every last stitch of moral progressive principle in favor of the adrenaline rush of the Bush=Hitler Rage Fest. They have totally lost it.
Does anyone remember the few British WWII “Lefties” who, over time, outright supported Hitler, claiming fascism in their country was just as bad as in Nazi Germany so what did it matter if Hitler defeated England? In 1942 D.S. Savage wrote, “Hitler requires, not condemnation, but understanding…we do not lift a finger to help either Britain or Germany “win”; but there would be a profound justice, I feel, however terrible, in a German victory.” What a sweet pacifist thought. And Alex Comfort wrote, also in 1942, “We are going to be entrusted with the job of saving what remains of the structure of civilized values from Hitler or alternatively from Churchill and his bladder-prickers.” Comfort was actually under the grandiose delusion that people like himself (you know, the good people who openly speak for peace and understanding and stuff) would remain alive and well under Hitler, just like the “left” today wrongly thinks they will be spared from outright attack because they’re the good people trying to “understand” theocratic/secular fascism, blaming America as it’s root cause and claiming America is the largest threat to the world. The “left” is literally following in the footsteps of Savage and Comfort…and perhaps even the Lindbergh/America First crowd, anti-Semitism and all: here, here, here, here, here, here. The “left” loves Dr. Seuss, right? Well, here’s the Seussian wisdom of 1941:
The ‘Savage’ Left? Is that how they want to be remembered? And, oh yes, there is a big difference between 1940s and now. Fortunately for England, in the ‘40s there were only a few like Savage. Unfortunately, I can’t say the same for today.
Anyway, I will from now on, refer to this ‘left’-melting-into- ‘right’ group as the ‘Savage’ Left, because I’ve realized, for real, that’s what they are.
-Cara
* While we're decidedly not fans of Dick Armey, we have to give him credit for this one-liner (even he has admitted it's not entirely water tight).
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