The Patriotic Left - I

The Patriotic Left - I always knew that there was such thing as a patriotic left - my parents lionized JFK and FDR, neither of whom could be mistaken for Berkeley grad students, and living in St. Paul, one meets plenty of flag-waving, red-white-'n-blue union members.

And since 9/11, the patriotic left has made its presence known - Bono wrapped himself in the flag at the last Super Bowl, Springsteen's muted support of the invasion of Afghanistan...

And Christopher Hitchens, who's written this excellent column. As Instapundit says, read the whole thing - but this excerpt is just delicious:

If you remember, there were also those who warned hysterically of a humanitarian disaster as a result of the bombing: a "silent genocide," as one Boston-area academic termed it. But to the contrary, the people of Afghanistan did not have to endure a winter with only the food and medicine that the primeval Taliban would have furnished them. They survived, and now the population has grown by almost 1.2 million, as refugees from the old, atrocious tyranny make their way home. Here is the first country in history to be bombed out of the Stone Age.