Or, to simplify things: "Of course, one way to reconcile the two positions is to simply assume the Left merely objects to (your choice) when it strengthens the West and loves it when it's hostile to the West."
The left adheres to the "enemy of my enemy is my friend" principle.
And anyone who hates the U.S. is A-OK with them.
They've got another extravaganza coming up next year--the memorial service for Adolf Hitler. It's been 60 years; can you believe that?
They can't decide whether to have it in Berlin or Paris.
You know--the Nobel Peace Prize committee could break precedent and give him the "Peace Prize" post-humously. I wonder if they've thought of that.
Arafat was a murdering butcher, and his death is a welcome event among free people.
Those who praise him now aren't the ones who lost loved ones in terrorist bombings in Israel.
You folks better read Anatoliy Golitsyn's book, "The Perestroika Deception" if you really want to understand that radical Islamism is a Dimitrov front for the successors of the COMINTERN. Read Yossef Bodansky's book, "Bin Laden". The Muslim Brotherhood has been a communist front since its inception (See http://www.leavenworth.army.mil/milrev/download/english/JulAug03/abo.pdf -- Note the profile of Sheikh Muhibb al-Din Khatib is that of a 1920s agit-prop activist). You should already be familiar with Ion Mihai Pacepa's book, "Red Horizons" that was summarized in his article in the Wall Street Journal's January 12, 2002 article, "The Arafat I Knew" and the importance of the implementation circa 1960-63 of KGB Chairman Shelepin's Master Plan -- which Arafat's training in Moscow at that time correlates with the start of its implementation. Then grab "Red Cocaine" by Joseph D. Douglass, Jr., to understand that one of the the prime weapons against the West is instutional corruption. To understand the role of the European and American Left in acting as enabler and facilitators and their strategic direction, google for "Gramsci Grand Plan" at www.thenewamerican.com. In the US the main front is the legal front, so see get the article by Jesse Rigsby, "NLG: The Legal Fifth Column" at www.frontpagemag.com. Read all those and you'll be off to a good start -- and it won't be a mystery why the left supports Islamists despite being nationalist and anti-feminists. It is the Gramscian implementation of Lenin's strategy of using subverting and capturing control of nationalist movements to achieve communist internationalist ends.