[A_perfect_lady]

You know, I think it's more a simple case of "enemy of my enemy" thinking. But that's just me.

[sageb1]

Interesting piece for sure, although I disagree that the left loves Islam. I think the two have a type of parasitic relationship. Neither trusts the other, but instead, as you say, the enemy of my enemy...

[Army Air Corps]

Pretty much. The Marxists in the west prefer to see the Jihadists as the toiling masses clamouring for revolutionary struggle (forgetting that the basis of their violence is rooted in religious zeal). The "soft-core" left see the Jihadists as a misunderstood and exploited "other" who is only using violence to get the world's attention. Whether hard or soft left, they have disengaged their brains and are blind to the fact that evil does exist and often comes in very human form and not in abstractions.

[randog]

I agree. The left loves their knee-jerk contrarianism. When a conservative says it's night, they'll argue that it's day ("really, what is the true meaning of night" or some such pseudo-intellectual bs).