The Pygmies Attack
By Michael R. Bowen (04/29/03)
As the war in Iraq winds up, the antiwar crowd is adopting its fallback positions.
Tim Robbins laments the "climate of fear" which has been mercilessly suppressing the voices of those opposed to the war. Except for Tim Robbins, Susan Sarandon, Natalie Maines, Martin Sheen, Mike Farrell, Janeane Garofalo, Barbra Streisand, Sean Penn, and, of course, Howard Dean and William Jefferson Clinton. Aside from these people, no one else can have their antiwar fulminations broadcast around the world. Except for Maureen Dowd, E. J. Dionne, Howell Raines, Frank Rich, Bob Herbert, Edward Said, the Village Voice, the Nation, and a host of lesser luminaries, no one dares speak out. Except of course for the thousands who marched against the war in every major city in United States. Aside from these, and the people waving antiwar signs on street corners and town centers across the country, and Internet sites such as Not In Our Name, Poets Against The War, and Democratic Underground, and a few unknowns like Dennis Kucinich, Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, Ramsey Clark, Jimmy Carter, International A.N.S.W.E.R., Artists United To Win Without War, Nelson Mandela, France, Germany, and Russia, all is terrified silence.
I do know that my cat's opposition to the war has gone unheard.
Mr. Farrell talks about a "well-orchestrated campaign.... through hate radio and websites." As opposed to the calm, reasoned, and gentle urgings from the Left that Bush = Hitler and America = The Real Terrorist. He goes on to point out that "An illegal war is an illegal war no matter what the result. We'll never know now what could have been achieved through peaceful means."
Mr. Farrell must have been on another planet for the last year. Otherwise he'd know what's already been achieved by peaceful means: another 12 years of torture, murder, pillage, rape, and starvation. But hope springs eternal in the mind of the Left, so even though coddling Hitler didn't work, it would have worked with Saddam. Even though the last Communist revolution led to poverty and brutal suppression, the next one will be perfect. The only historic lesson Mr. Farrell ever learned was Vietnam, and he got that one wrong.
We've already heard that the Left really knew beforehand that the war would be a "cakewalk". That's why they predicted a quagmire and thousands of casualties before the shooting started. I don't know why they didn't predict the looting of the historic artifacts, but they certainly recovered quickly enough to blame George Bush. I'm already seeing claims that incriminating Iraqi documents and materials have been planted by the Americans.
Confronting the Left is like shoveling smoke. Perhaps because of their postmodern belief that there is no objective truth, they feel no obligation to own up to their lies. After the smoke clears, there's always an explanation why the complete erroneousness of their predictions actually proves that they were right. You try and try to fight your way through to the core of their beliefs, only to find there isn't any "there" there.
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