The Left Continues its Anti-American Program
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While President Bush's policies have produced democracy in Afghanistan and Iraq and have spurred democratic movements in Lebanon, Egypt, Palestine and Saudi Arabia, the world-wide left (most especially including its American branch) continues to work on the assumption not only of American failure in the War on Terrorism, but upon the theory that the United States is fundamentally at fault for terrorism.
Thomas Joscelyn, writing over at the Weekly Standard, gives us a look into this leftwing worldview at the recent Club of Madrid conference on terrorism. At this summit (attended by such luminaries as Madeline Albright), President Bush, the American people and the War on Terrorism came in for heavy criticism. Boiled down, what it amounts to is an assertion that American religiosity spurs the United States to extreme, destructive violence which is creating more terrorists to replace those which grew out of anger over American economic and military policy in the past.
The stated purpose of the summit was to explore different ways to combat terrorism. It would seem that the best the worldwide left can do on this score is to work out plans to hobble the United States. Get us on a leash, and terrorism will end; or, equally acceptable for the left, become more "stable" as controlled by ruthless dictators who will keep the number of dead to an acceptable (to the left) level.
The combination of arrogance and blindness at this summit neatly encapsulates the left's abdication from reality. For all of its existence, leftwing thought has lived in a world of theory divorced from fact and now that the the facts are coming home to roost, the left is not rethinking its views, but insisting that we pretend that the leftwing theories fit the facts.
The fact that Islamo-fascist terrorism grows out of a native desire in the Arab/Moslem world to dominate non-Moslems and rule the world is ignored; this doesn't fit into the leftwing theory of how the White Man has, by his evil deeds, made otherwise peaceful people into hate-filled killers. So, the after-the-fact response to the terrorism is held up as proof that it was western actions which caused the terrorism. 9/11, in the mind of the left, was caused by Abu Gharib.
What this means is that we can expect no rethinking and no help from the left. Turn the Arab/Moslem world into a sociological carbon-copy of San Diego, California and the left will simply deny that we had anything to do with it; and they'll take a side-trip into bemoaning how our work has erroded the old culture of the Arab/Moslem world.
This war, for better or worse, is entirely the war of only the conservative side of the Western World; it is we, the conservatives, who are sending out armies of liberation and supporting them and it is we conservatives who are coming up with the ideas and programs to implement liberal democracy where before there was only tyranny. We'll have to fight this long, hard war entirely on our own and at the end of it we'll receive zero thanks for our efforts.
So be it. We're doing the right thing and we'll have to count on future historians, looking back from a long distance, to understand what we did, and why.
Posted by Mark Noonan
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