Why Do They Hate Us? (Because they can't comprehend the "shining city upon a hill.")

...our supposed allies and fellow members of what used to be called the Free World...

Part of it is clearly ideology. For ill or for tragic, the rest of the world inclines more toward socialism — or "social democracy" as they prefer to call coerced redistribution along majoritarian lines

Exactly. The "Free World" only existed for a relatively short period of time after WWII. Beyond that, the vast majority of the rest of the world has struggled under tyrannical kings, governments that are overthrown each time the wind blows, or toyed with various incarnations of Marxism. They don't have the libertarian heritage that Our Founding Fathers provided for us.

Theirs is a different viewpoint and it's only through our phenomenal success, and their subsequent envy, that we're able to interact with the rest of the world at all.

Owl_Eagle

" WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
DIVERSITY IS STRENGTH"

The world has been whining 'gimme, gimme, gimme' for lord only knows how many years and the most thanks we get is stabbed in the back. Enough is enough. We've hear that mind boggling question "Why do they hate us?" constantly since 9/11. You know what? I do NOT care anymore. That's right, I don't care if they like us or not but be it known I will vote for Bush who will at least try to not allow them to commit another such tragedy.

Here is part of the Protestwarrior newsletter, which is SO good. It's long, but very germaine to the original post, and very, very pointed and on.

More than two and a quarter centuries ago, a group of men came together to create the greatest country this world has ever known. They were men of wealth, privilege, and status, yet they risked everything for a principle, that all men are endowed with Inalienable rights. The right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness are not gifts bestowed from a government, but are intrinsic to human life. They codified these principles in that great document The Constitution, and established a nation where men could finally live free.

Liberated from the whims of tyrants and kings, the people of the United States of America built the greatest, wealthiest, most moral country on earth. Our economic liberty and rule of law obliterated the aristocracy, enabling anyone to go as far as their imagination and drive. The profit motive spurred a geyser of technological breakthroughs that surpassed the previous two millennia a thousand times over. Our Judeo-Christian heritage drove slavery, an ongoing practice since the dawn of man, into the history books.

One would think these self-evident facts would be cherished, heralded, shouted from the rooftops. Yet instead we find the exact opposite today. Today, America is vilified, hated and under attack like never before, from enemies both foreign and domestic. Externally, we face a threat perhaps even more dangerous than Communism: the menace of Islamo-fascism. Internally, we face a Fifth Column who hate America, and have cunningly maximized their power through their control of the media, the schools, and the culture, propagating principles in direct contrast to what makes this country great. Most ominously, these two forces have joined together in a marriage of convenience against their common enemy, America.

For too long, we have ceded the moral high ground to our enemies. We have let the forces that hate freedom, justice and morality set the agenda, as good men reel on the defensive, protesting our good intentions. More Americans everyday are awakened to the cause for liberty, yet our political elites continue to apportion more of human affairs to the State. And while no other country has been a more positive force for good on this planet, the princes of political correctness run rampant with their anti-American vitriol, poisoning our kids and emboldening our enemies.

Thomas Jefferson wrote, "The natural progress of things is for government to gain ground and for liberty to yield." That certainly adds an ominous connotation to 'Progressives', the latest appellation of the Left.

The war on Iraq was what finally exposed the Left for what they really are. Strictly on national security reasons, it was a war we had to wage. Saddam Hussein tried to build a nuclear reactor in the 80s, it was his use of biological weapons against the Iranians that turned the tide of that war from a defeat to a stalemate, and he has used chemical weapons against the Kurds with impunity. Is it imperative to confirm that he had WMDs before we preemptively strike? No. All that matters is a psychopath tyrant who ran in the same circles as the 9/11 terrorists might have them.

Now if the price for protecting America was to destroy Iraq, then we might have an argument. That scenario might have allowed for men of good conscience to disagree. But what was most astounding, and most revealing, was that this war would immensely benefit the Iraqi people, by liberating them from one of the most brutal sadistic tyrants this world has ever seen. Saddam and his henchmen ruled with an iron fist, subjecting his people to an unimaginable hell of torture chambers and dungeons. The Baathist regime, an unholy mixture of socialism and Islam, has killed a hundred times more Muslims than the Israeli Defense Force.

The death count by Saddam was only limited by his power, nothing more. So this was a win-win situation. We eliminate a murderous regime which might be building weapons of mass destruction, we liberate the Iraqi people from tyranny, and most importantly, we begin to drain the swamp of Islamo-fascism that has a stranglehold on the region.

And yet liberals across the country mobilized for protests against this just war. Not since Vietnam have we seen such a groundswell of opposition to an American military action. When Bill Clinton intervened in a civil war being fought over Kosovo, bombing a civilian populace back to the stone age on behalf of a radical heroin-smuggling Muslim terrorist group, there was nary a peep from the Left. Yet when we try to take out a bloodthirsty savage dictator, the exact antithesis of all the values liberals purport to hold, and we have chaos in the streets.

So what is the key variable? What was different about this war? The variable is that this war was about protecting American interests and expanding freedom on the planet, and that is what our enemies cannot countenance. The Arab dictators who live like their ancient Babylonian ancestors while their people starve are loathe to see freedom in the Middle East. And the ‘liberals’ whose entire cause is their cult of secular humanism, find the expansion of economic liberty and democratic values anathema to their evil designs.

If the Left were honest in their convictions, they would be as pro-America as the Right is. What other country has done more to liberate people from the evils of fascism, to empower women and minorities, or has a better track record on the environment. Most importantly, what other nation is there with a more charitable and moral people. Yet while with one side of their mouth they castigate America for its racism, sexism, anti-environmentalism, inequality and genocide against others, they are apologists for Islamic and socialist regimes that are a thousand times more culpable.

But what's most frustrating of all is that we, the liberty-lovers, are so timid in confronting them. The Republican leadership is constantly acceding the principles of big government, only calling for slower growth. President Bush’s ‘compassionate conservatism’ is a total validation of the Left, as if there is anything compassionate about hooking people up to government dependency, and then forcing us to work half the year as a slave to pay for it all. We have allowed the Left to assume the intellectual and moral high ground, casting our side as selfish interests with ulterior motives.

And that's where ProtestWarrior comes in. It's time we turned the tables and put them on the defensive. By using their Saul Alinksy Communist tactics against them, for the first time their rickety moral foundation is being exposed and attacked. No longer shall we say to them, "We're not evil." The time has come to say, "You're evil."

We have to fight these people in the trenches. Just as they have the right to protest America, we have the right to protest them. And as our crashings, infiltrations, and adventures demonstrate, there is nothing more powerful than facts, logic and truth when confronting them. Our carefully calibrated signs and slogans are Patriot Truth Missiles, intercepting and destroying their Leftist scuds. The best defense is an aggressive offense.

The most astounding insight we have found is just how intellectually bankrupt they are. Totally devoid of ideas and running on fumes, their only recourse is to vilify their opponents, shield themselves from the marketplace of ideas in their ivory towers, and engage in gross manipulation of facts. It is almost surreal the lengths leftists go to avoid facing how anti-freedom they are. So desperate are they to protect their moral house of cards, all they can do is set up individual politicians as straw men. Anyone who challenges their paradigm is branded as a racist, a sexist, a white male capitalist oppressor. All of this is a phantom phalanx to prevent the truth from emerging, that their ideology is not based on the good, but is in fact a hatred of the good. Witness that the two countries that stand most for 'liberal' values, the United States and Israel, are the two countries they despise the most.

Can there even be any more doubt that all their causes are just facades for their true sinister agenda, to create a world without freedom, without justice, without moral standards? And as the United States and her armed forces is the one thing standing in the way of their nightmare utopia of a one world socialist government, they will do anything and everything to weaken America.

The time has come to draw a line in the sand. Many conservatives say that we are realists battling the liberal idealists. We reject this premise. We hold that the moral is the practical, as we are idealists for liberty.

-Alan & Kfir

Actually, this author has hit upon an important point in the resentment among Europeans and Latin Americans (who take their cultural cues from Spain and France): American exceptionalism.

In fine, American exceptionalism is the notion that the United States of America is some different from other nations, uniquely blessed by God and/or nature, with a a uniquely moral people whose mission is (at least) to serve as a beacon of liberty to the world.

Most Americans, if they think about it, hold some variant of this view. Most Europeans find the idea very upsetting, and they mock it fiercely.

http://www.protestwarrior.com/newsletters/03_04_04.html

Very good. Worth bookmarking. Thanks.

And an enlightened citizen of the 21st century cannot fathom why the richest country in the world does not provide free universal health care, let alone enshrine the inalienable right to food, shelter, and a living wage

These facts are not unrelated.

coerced redistribution along majoritarian lines

I have a "liberal" mother-in-law that seems to have NO CONCEPT of the difference between voluntary charity and coerced (forced) redistribution. I think this is common amongst "liberals" today, whether they truly don't know, or just don't want to admit that they want to force their values on the rest of us.

Wow what a great article, it says it all this is the USA vs Socialism!

Actually, this author has hit upon an important point in the resentment among Europeans and Latin Americans (who take their cultural cues from Spain and France): American exceptionalism. In fine, American exceptionalism is the notion that the United States of America is some different from other nations, uniquely blessed by God and/or nature, with a a uniquely moral people whose mission is (at least) to serve as a beacon of liberty to the world.

Most Americans, if they think about it, hold some variant of this view. Most Europeans find the idea very upsetting, and they mock it fiercely.

Well wel what do you think? I think Jesus cares for all of us, and don't have different classification #1 America, #2 Itali, # 3 England, # zilion France!

bttt

If you were protesting in Tianamen Square, right now
you would have been beaten up, jailed, tortured and
shot.

Communism is such a nice way to live.

Well wel [sic] what do you think? I think Jesus cares for all of us, and don't have different classification #1 America, #2 Itali, # 3 England, # zilion France!

You miss the point.

It is not that God thinks of us differently than he does other nations or peoples.

It is that Americans, at least a significant number who influence the culture, still think of God in a way that those of the other industrialized nations (with a few exceptions) don't.

We still honor Him and deem Him authoritative in our moral compass, and are not ashamed to say so.

I hope, and truly do pray, that the people of Europe return to their spiritual heritage and submit to the God of the Bible before they are forced to submit to the god of the Koran.

Indeed. The idea of American exceptionalism is America being an example to the world for God, unique in combining the natural resources with her Faithful people who love liberty.

How about if us, the Europeans, the Jews, and the Moslems get together and expose religions as a crotch. If all mankind reject organized religions, think of religion as a private thing rather than a heritage thing that they MUST display to assert themselves as a group - us against them tribalism! The world would be a better place.