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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: bentway who wrote (48507)	5/31/2005 11:24:35 AM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 173976

"I'm leaving the left -- more precisely, the American cultural left and what it has become during our time together. ... "I can no longer abide the simpering voices of self-styled progressives -- people who once championed solidarity with oppressed populations everywhere -- reciting all the ways Iraq's democratic experiment might yet implode. ... "Leading voices in America's 'peace' movement are actually cheering against self-determination for a long-suffering Third World country because they hate George W. Bush more than they love freedom. ... "I began my activist career championing the 1968 presidential candidacies of Robert Kennedy and Eugene McCarthy. ... I marched for peace and farm worker justice, lobbied for women's right to choose and environmental protections, signed up with George McGovern in 1972 and got elected as the youngest delegate ever to a Democratic convention. ... "[After the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks] Susan Sontag cleared her throat for the 'courage' of the al Qaeda pilots. Norman Mailer pronounced the dead of September 11 comparable to 'automobile statistics.' ... Noam Chomsky insisted that al Qaeda at its most atrocious generated no terror greater than American foreign policy on a mediocre day. "All of this came back to me as I watched the left's anemic, smirking response to Iraq's election in January." -- Keith Thompson, writing on "Leaving the left," May 22 in the San Francisco Chronicle