The HuffPo’s Lonely Planet Foreign Policy

Commentary Magazine ^ | May 21st, 2009 | Michael J. Totten

[Jbny]

Roger Cohen seems to have invented a genre. At the very least he has imitators. Olivia Sterns just published a piece at the Huffington Post decrying Syria’s “misrepresentation” in the media and arguing that President Barack Obama “embrace” Damascus’s tyrant Bashar Assad as a peace partner because the locals were nice to her when she visited Syria on vacation.

[angkor]

Liberals have serious mental problems which are reflected in their epistemologies and their tendencies (compulsive drives?) toward solipsism.

This article shows one example, “Syrians were nice to me, therefore all Syrians are nice. Iraqis are nice to me, therefore all Iraqis are nice.”

And there are many others but envirowhackism is my favorite: “My urban/semi-urban slum neighborhood is a mess, therefore the entire world is an environmental Armageddon.”

I have seriously challenged lefty envirowhackos to look around at the larger world as they begin their “eco tours”, and to report back on the state of the earth beyond their little suburban hellholes. Even to look out the window of their cross-country flight to the U.S. Rockies and report back on the relative percentage of observable greenery versus asphalt.

This ALWAYS and without fail produces either a sheepish admission that there’s a hack of a lot of greenery in America, or a complete shutdown, e.g., “That’s not worth discussing.”

Solipsism is a liberal mental disease.

[SunkenCiv]

Olivia Sterns just published a piece at the Huffington Post decrying Syria's "misrepresentation" in the media and arguing that President Barack Obama "embrace" Damascus's tyrant Bashar Assad as a peace partner because the locals were nice to her when she visited Syria on vacation.

That's stupid, eh?

"I agree -- I embrace President Assad because's a fellow Muslim."