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Tuesday, September 27, 2005

Hitchens looks lovely when he gets angry at phony peaceniks
(and unlike me, can use his prepositions correctly, too) Anti-War, My Foot: The phony peaceniks who protested in Washington
To be against war and militarism, in the tradition of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, is one thing. But to have a record of consistent support for war and militarism, from the Red Army in Eastern Europe to the Serbian ethnic cleansers and the Taliban, is quite another. It is really a disgrace that the liberal press refers to such enemies of liberalism as "antiwar" when in reality they are straight-out pro-war, but on the other side. Was there a single placard saying, "No to Jihad"? Of course not. Or a single placard saying, "Yes to Kurdish self-determination" or "We support Afghan women's struggle"? Don't make me laugh. And this in a week when Afghans went back to the polls, and when Iraqis were preparing to do so, under a hail of fire from those who blow up mosques and U.N. buildings, behead aid workers and journalists, proclaim fatwahs against the wrong kind of Muslim, and utter hysterical diatribes against Jews and Hindus.
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There are only two serious attempts at swamp-draining currently under way. In Afghanistan and Iraq, agonizingly difficult efforts are in train to build roads, repair hospitals, hand out ballot papers, frame constitutions, encourage newspapers and satellite dishes, and generally evolve some healthy water in which civil-society fish may swim. But in each case, from within the swamp and across the borders, the most poisonous snakes and roaches are being recruited and paid to wreck the process and plunge people back into the ooze. How nice to have a "peace" movement that is either openly on the side of the vermin, or neutral as between them and the cleanup crew, and how delightful to have a press that refers to this partisanship, or this neutrality, as "progressive."
That the words "liberal" and "progressive" have become debased enough to be used on this crowd is disgraceful. Treasonous, reactionary, anti-Semitic, dishonest and demagogic would be more appropriate.

Ralph Peters says that for them, "The answer is never personal responsibility, but joining a support group".

Contrast those protestors with these.

1 Comments:

At 5:19 PM, Blogger SC&A said...

I have a theory about these protests. They are irrelevant.

They are no more than vehicles to be used bu anyone with a bullhorn and agenda. Once they are over, they are over- and have no more lasting import than a teenagers recounting last weekends escapades.

No one takes them seriously- no one.

 

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