Posted on 09/08/2002 3:42:53 PM PDT by adam stevens
Sorry again for the sloppy editing.
Christopher Hitchens has said that our country is a number of things desirable from a leftwing point of view: multicultural, secular, and tolerant. It is hence worth defending. Someone on the right might define the country differently in terms of traditional political and cultural values but still maintain that it is therefore worthy of defending. The leftists detailed here, notably Chomsky, have as their base premise that the country is, and cannot be, worth defending by definition no matter how it is viewed, and their conclusions proceed from that rather insufficiently examined start. And they are mortally afraid of examining it, which is how the Taliban end up as victims in their eyes despite a nature that should be anathema to a principled leftist.
The screeching you hear from them is nothing more than a herd of people covering their ears with their hands and shouting "I can't hear you" when confronted with 3000 bodies in the smoking ruin of the World Trade Center.
And I will again postulate that those leftists believe that cardinal values of private property and self-defense are null and void to the individual - so they therefore cannot be valid to the nation-state as well. They are a philosophy of want and need, not work and have - so the absurd claims of a terrorist class of middle-class Islamic college students bent on violent separation of Americans from the fruits of their freedoms and their labors is NO FRIGGIN' DIFFERENT from the absurd claims of middle-class Marxist college students bent on violent separation of Americans from the fruits of their freedoms and their labors. To understand the well-to-do Islamic college-educated radical, look to our own history with the well-to-do Marxist college educated radical - because it is those radicals, having become college professors or liberal columnists, who are leading the defense of the Islamic radicals. AND FOR THE EXACT SAME FRIGGIN' REASON - THEY ARE INTELLECTUAL PEERS.
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