Oh, I may email Andrew myself. But his article is spot-on. He illustrates the inability of the Left to see a good thing, the death of the squalid Hussein pair, for what it is-a Very Good Thing.
But Sullivan doesn't have the guts to go to the core of the issue. The Left, both online and in the press, does this kind of thing not because it hates Uday and Qusay less, but because it hates George W. Bush more.
See, the core sickness of the Democratic Left is that it is animated by hate, the kind of hate DeLay focused on two days ago. It is a hatred that surpasses anything the Left might feel against either bin Laden or Hussein. This hatred manifests itself in various ways, on DU or Truthout, for instance, or in the printed screeds of the demented Maureen Dowd. Anger, malice, contempt, slight regard, paranoia: all are on display, and all are the same fruit from the poisoned tree. Hate.
Bin Laden and Hussein are abstractions to the Left. Bin Laden is some mythical figure sitting off in a cave somewhere dispatching dark emissaries to the four corners of the globe. The farther we get away from the attacks on the U.S., the more it recedes into memory, the greater the ability of the Left to rationalize inaction and blame the messenger, George W. Bush.
Hussein is a fallen fascist dictator who shook his fist at the Americans, thus earning the admiration of the Arab Street and the American Left. To the extent that he resisted American ambition, he was to be protected. It matters not that his people were butchered in their thousands: the left has always found a way to apologize for butchery when it suited their purposes. But it was not to be: George W. Bush was the Greater Threat. So, despite all the dead Iraqis, they choose to hate Bush, and not Saddam, Uday, or Qusay.
These are vile people, these Leftists. Sullivan has barely scratched the surface.
Be Seeing You,
Chris