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July 26, 2005
Let's pretend we can wipe out terrorism by paying absolutely no attention to why it happens
Ted Lapkin believes that terrorism can be eliminated if we just continue on our merry path of "war". Actually looking at the results of a war to see if it's accomplishing the stated goals can't happen.
That would require taking your head out of your ass and looking around to assess the situation. An exercise that Lapkin appears completely ill-suited to manage.
Instead, Lapkin serves up the tired, worn out pap that pats the status quo on the back while loosing daggers against those who wish to address the causes of terrorism:
The aftermath of the London terrorist bombings has demonstrated that the antiwar Left is severely afflicted by the political equivalent of battered-wife syndrome. With each new beating, the scarred and bruised victims of spousal abuse tend to excuse and rationalize the actions of their tormentors. A stubborn unwillingness to accept the proposition that their partners are violent louts plunges these woeful women into a morass of self-deception that spawns only further violence.
The far Left has similarly proved unable to liberate itself from the web of rose-tinted delusions that it has spun about the nature of Islamic extremism. After each al Qaeda outrage, leftist ideologues are quick to castigate their own countrymen for a catalogue of sins, both real and imagined. With a perverse combination of self-loathing and adoration of the enemy, the radical Leftist mantra preaches that if only we were nicer, the jihadists could not fail to love us. It’s our own fault if Osama bin Laden doesn’t realize what good people we are.
For Lapkin, the outrages of Al Qaida are to be addressed not by an understanding of why Al Qaida does them..but by setting forth an angry vomit against the left for working to end terrorism.
Al Qaida as an evil entity isn't the issue. The world is chock full of evil. Whining that the US doesn't sometimes have a hand in that evil is simply more head up the ass ostriching that perpetuates the problem.
The mantra that the US never does anything wrong is easy, lazy and elitist. Blathering on about laying constant claim to the moral high ground is part of the insufferable hubris of the right that undermines us even more.
Osama doesn't care if we're good people or bad people. Lapkin doesn't concern himself with such trivialities, however. There are fires to stoke against the liberals. There's a war to use to bludgeon political enemies.
And if the causes of Islamist terrorism were being falsely diagnosed by leftist ideologues, then the policy proposals being advanced by these same voices were morally bankrupt as well. Rather than pursue the fanatics had who visited such death upon the innocent of London, George Galloway, a radical member of Parliament, urged Britain to adopt the Spanish model of crumpling under pressure.
How many false premises can one man pack into one paragraph? A shitload, apparently. "If" the left misdiagnosed the causes of Islamic terrorism? The left has been telling you since day one what the issues are, Ted. Some on the right are finally starting to get on the bus with us in an effort to end terrorism. The rose tinted glasses you like to cast aspersions about are sitting on your own face.
And Spain? Conveniently missing from Ted's diatribe is the fact that the Iraq war supporting Spanish government was tossed out on it's ass not because it embraced the war, but because the government lied to the people about the perps of the Madrid train bombings.
But the far-left views the world through a political prism that distorts this essential reality. Fixated by a knee-jerk hostility towards all things American, the likes of Ali, Fisk, and Galloway refuse to recognize the existence of this conflict, much less the stakes that are involved. Their primal instinct is to appease bin Laden and his cohorts rather than oppose them.
Those much smarter than I have already articulated that the right goes after the left a very clever way. They attack the left where the right is the weakest. In other words Lapkin knows that the right is viewing the world through a carefully crafted political prism that distorts the essential reality of why suicide terrorism occurs. The knee jerk hostility toward anyone or anything not articulating through that prism is the right's greatest weakness. Their primal instinct to saber rattle a war that's escalating terrorism is a major Achilles Heel.
The best way to deflect from these weaknesses is to project them on to the left. Until recently it's been a rather successful enterprise. Unfortunately why they sit back and deny the causes for escalation of terror attacks, more are slaughtered.
(Hat tip:Tom Carter)
Posted by Carla at July 26, 2005 11:55 AM