Posted on 03/20/2006 11:18:24 AM PST by neverdem
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March 20, 2006, 8:06 a.m. A Deadly Silence Leaving the Left’s victims of terror behind.
The muted reaction to the murder of Virginia-based peace activist Tom Fox earlier this month highlights a puzzling phenomenon. While terrorists in Iraq like those who shot Fox in the head and chest and dumped his body beside a Baghdad railroad target the kind of people the Left champions in America, liberal Democrats stay mum while their people get seized, maimed, and killed over there. Rather than demand the total defeat of these butchers, Operation Iraqi Freedoms shrillest opponents instead accuse President Bush of carelessly blundering into war while brilliantly manipulating Democrats into authorizing hostilities. Al Qaedas man in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, elicits shrugs while Americas true enemies, they suggest, are Guantanamo, the NSA terrorist-surveillance program, and the just-renewed Patriot Act.
Sen. John Kerry, who let President Bush bamboozle him into approving the Iraq War, told CBSs Bob Schieffer last December: There is no reason . . . that young American soldiers need to be going into the homes of Iraqis in the dead of night, terrorizing kids and children, you know, women. We have met the terrorists, and apparently, they are us.
As Robert Novak reported last June, activists from Code Pink and other peace groups participated in a mock war-crimes trial in Istanbul. They endorsed its final statement, which embraced Iraqs anti-U.S. insurgency.
The popular national resistance to the occupation is legitimate and justified, reads the communiqué of the World Tribunal on Iraq. It deserves the support of people everywhere who care for justice and freedom.
In perhaps the biggest American love bomb thrown at Iraqs bomb throwers, filmmaker Michael Moore wrote in April 2004: The Iraqis who have risen up against the occupation are not insurgents or terrorists or The Enemy. They are the revolution, the Minutemen, and their numbers will grow and they will win.
If terrorists in Iraq only iced bankers, oilmen, and HMO administrators, one might fathom liberal complacency about such violence. Instead, these murderers hit precisely those who the Left normally welcomes into their rainbow-hued tent. But since these victims are in Iraq, their deaths generate little evident sympathy.
Beyond their indiscriminate killings, consider how terrorists deliberately strike groups liberals claim to love, at least domestically:
Pacifists: Though peaceniks in Iraq echo the American Lefts pronouncements, violence against them yields leftwing American quietude. Along with the late Tom Fox, terrorists last November 26 kidnapped Briton Norman Kember, and Canadians James Loney and Harmeet Singh Sooden. These members of Christian Peacemaker Teams remain captive. Terrorists seem unimpressed that CPT personnel oppose Operation Iraqi Freedom and even served as human shields to prevent Iraqs March 2003 liberation.
Diplomats: Dont fight, talk could encapsulate the Lefts foreign policy. Liberals usually favor diplomacy over confrontation; consider their craving for United Nations resolutions and lengthy negotiations. So where was the outrage when terrorists killed Algerian diplomats Ali Belaroussi and Azzedine Belkadi last July?
These are two envoys of the Algerian state which does not apply Sharia law and is allied to the Jews and the Christians, al Qaeda in Iraq charged on its website.
As these Islamofascists explained, on July 7, they assassinated the ambassador of the infidels, Ihab al-Sharif, Egypts envoy to Baghdad. Al Qaeda in Iraq also took credit for the July 5 attempted kidnappings of Pakistans and Bahrains ambassadors. While both escaped, Bahrains Hassan Ansari sustained a gunshot wound. On their website, these killers said they hoped to capture as many ambassadors as we can.
Terrorists also exterminated 22 people when they detonated a 550-pound truck bomb beside the United Nations Baghdad headquarters on August 22, 2003. Ironically, diplomats there were discussing how to cleanse Iraq of landmines.
Journalists: Progressives are generally cozy with reporters, and vice versa. The mainstream media list leftward as effortlessly as marbles roll downhill. Yet, ongoing violence against journalists in Iraq elicits little leftwing comment.
Terrorists this month shot and killed Muhsin Khudhair, an Iraqi newsweekly editor. They fatally shot Iraqi TV anchorman Munsuf Abdallah al-Khaldi as he drove north from Baghdad to Mosul, to interview poets.
Terrorists kidnapped Christian Science Monitor reporter Jill Carroll last January. She has appeared thrice on video, tearfully pleading for her life.
Last November, terrorists struck Baghdads Hamra Hotel, home to many journalists. A car bomb killed eight and injured 43. The toll might have been worse had a follow-on truck bomb not dropped into the first car bombs crater.
Terrorists driving car bombs last October attacked Baghdads Palestine Hotel, where many reporters live and work. Six passersby were killed before U.S. troops foiled the plot as it unfolded.
The plan was very clear to us, Iraqi national security adviser Mouwafak al-Rubaie told the Associated Press. Take the foreign and Arab journalists as hostages to use them as a bargain.
Teachers: Instructors compose the Democrats chief battalion of political volunteers. In exchange, Democrats dutifully serve teachers unions. How strange, then, that barely a ripple of complaint arose after terrorists last September drove to the Al-Jazeera Elementary School in Muelha, 30 miles south of Baghdad. They lined up five teachers and their driver against a classroom wall and shot them dead.
Children: Think of the children may be the Lefts most shopworn slogan. Democrats claim to cherish kids sometimes more than their parents do. Yet liberals say little when terrorists aim their crosshairs at Iraqi boys and girls.
Last July, a homicide bomber steered toward candy-hungry kids who had surrounded U.S. GIs in Jadida. His car exploded, killing 27, including one American soldier and 18 children.
The one who did this has no morality, Suheil Abd Ali told reporters. This suicide bomber isnt an Arab or a Muslim or even a Jew. Hes not human.
In September 2004, another homicide bomber killed 35 children as American troops gave them candy at the opening ceremony for a new sewage facility.
Terrorists occupied and controlled the only hospital in the city, Mayor Najim Abdullah Abid al-Jibouri of Tal Afar, Iraq, wrote in a letter praising U.S. GIs. Their savagery reached such a level that they stuffed the corpses of children with explosives and tossed them into the streets in order to kill grieving parents attempting to retrieve the bodies of their young.
Why have so many liberals abandoned overseas the very people they lionize at home? The answer is the worst four-letter word in their vocabulary: Bush.
The Democratic Left hates President Bushs guts. They also hate his face, his footsteps, and his shadow. Since hurting him involves looking away as terrorists slaughter pacifists, diplomats, journalists, teachers, and children, they do so with zeal.
Deroy Murdock is a New York-based columnist with the Scripps Howard News Service and a senior fellow with the Atlas Economic Research Foundation in Arlington, Va.
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I doubt the teachers who were executed were union members so they don't count to the left.
A great response to the nay-sayers, the whiners, the Hollyweirds, Code Pink, Cindy Shewitch, the Kerrys and Kennedys in the Senate and all the rest of the RATs and MSM who are on another leftist campaign like that they held during of Viet Nam period. In fact, the same people are involved now, except now they in their dotty late-middle age. A pox on all of them!
The Gospels couldn't anticipate the level of evil in the world. The Peaceniks mean well, but their practice of nonviolence never works in this world, as Mr. Fox's tragic death just underscored.
It's the West and Western Civilization they hate, and at this moment, Bush just happens to be the leader of the West.
I don't think Christ meant that police officers can't shoot a man who is holding a knife who and threatening to harm a child.
Correction: I don't think Christ meant that police officers can't shoot a man who is holding a knife and who is threatening to harm a child.
Christians should know there's nothing in scriptures which would preclude a little lethal force in self defense.
They do not advocate peace for the sake of peace, they advocate it out of cowardice. This is why they ignore attrocities against their own, the are cowards.
They want to make it seem as if our policy of war against
Iraq created an environment where innocent idiots like Fox
get captured and killed...Fox didn't have to be there,
he could have been somewhere else. This way, he could be
a martyr. Are we sure it's his body anyway?
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