How's that Berkeley crowd holding up?
Peace vigils' candles Blowin' out in the win
by Howie Carr
Friday, November 16, 2001
One thing the Taliban has been learning in spades lately:
There's nothing like a few daisy-cutter bombs to take all the fun out of fundamentalism.
It's not going to be a very merry Ramadan in Afghanistan this year. If Dr. Seuss were still with us, he could do a Muslim version of the Grinch book: The Infidel Who Stole Ramadan.
It's amazing: Who would have thought that Jordan Levy and Christy Mihos would hold out longer than the Taliban?
Now all his own people are in a rush to rat out Osama bin Laden. He's getting more dimes dropped on him than Peter Blute.
Although how can you blame the Afghans - that $25 million reward will buy a lot of camels, not to mention a billy goat or two.
As terrible as it must be to be an al-Qaeda terrorist holed up in a cave waiting for the inevitable bunker buster, there's one group that's almost as broken-hearted about the string of Allied victories this week, and you know exactly who I mean.
The American peace Nazis.
Yes, Bill Maher, this means you. Ditto, Susan Sontag. Hey, Seymour Hersh, are we still losing the war?
They are dying, absolutely dying. George Bush is defending women and talking about what a ``backward'' group the Taliban is. That's hate speech, man, Eurocentrism.
It was OK for Putin to do it - he used to be a Communist, so that makes him Good People. But Bush, calling someone else ``backward''? How dare he!
Yes, these are the darkest of days for the peace Nazis.
And so many of the peace Nazis' most reliable fellow travelers have been peeled off. Geraldo Rivera now sounds like Newt Gingrich. Even The New York Times has gone wobbly. When Clinton pardoned the Puerto Rican terrorists, the Times called them ``nationalists.'' Al-Qaeda they refer to as . . . terrorists.
Let's face it. The peace Nazis were looking forward to a - to use their own favorite word - quagmire. The peace Nazis had laid in a bunch of new candles for the peace vigils. They'd tuned up their guitars so they could play ``Blowin' in the Wind'' one more time. They'd dusted off the old Birkenstocks.
But now their guys, those brave Third World warriors, the Taliban, have folded like Saddam Hussein's elite Republican Guard back in 1991. These fiends are very tough when they're using poison gas on Kurds in northern Iraq, or holding a boxcutter to a stewardess' throat on Flight 11.
But now they're doing the old feets-don't-fail-me-now routine. They always do, when a real army shows up in the neighborhood.
Andrew Sullivan performed a real public service by posting on his Web site - Andrewsullivan.com - some of the musings of the peace Nazis. A small sampling of the Clintonistas' musings:
Wrinkly Kennedy groupie Arthur Schlesinger Jr.: ``Bombing has only a limited impact.''
Post-menopausal bad-writer/shrew Gloria Steinem: ``Bombing would be the surest way to unite most Afghans.''
Katha Pollitt, The Nation: ``Bombing will produce thousands of Taliban fans . . . a determined, hardy foe.''
(Actually, Katha, it turns out all most Afghans wanted was a shave and a few cheesecake photos of movie starlets.)
Daniel Schorr, 90-something limousine liberal on (Where else?) NPR: ``Afghan support for the Taliban appears to be on the increase. . . . This is a war in trouble.''
Do you remember Jennie Traschen, the pinko professor at ZooMass-Amherst who says the American flag is a ``symbol of terrorism and death and fear and destruction and oppression''?
I called her the other day to ask how she's bearing up now that her fascist friends have been routed. She did not return my call.
Too bad - I wanted to ask when she was planning to have a bake sale for al-Qaeda.
It's been a tough week for your team, Jennie. Maybe they can shake it off in the locker room at halftime.
Happy Ramadan.
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