Defeating Kedwards - the Moral Imperative

Lex Green of Chicago Boyz on the moral cretinism of too much of the left when the talk turns to atrocity.

Green writes::

Similarly, the routinely awful Andrew Greeley recently wrote:

If you support the war; if, with the president and Kerry, you want to ''stay'' the course, the next time you see the bodies of children strewn about a street in Iraq, ask yourself if their blood is not on your hands

Note well: Fr. Greeley says that you, dear reader, murdered those children, if you support George Bush, if you won't admit defeat and advocate abandoning Iraq. Fr. Greeley needs a refresher course in moral theology. But he is alarmingly typical.

Watch for more of this. If you oppose the jihadis, if you don't give in to their demands, you have blood on your hands.

This is not just moral cretinism. It is the Left's new approach to seeking the defeat of their political enemies at home, and whether intentionally or not, in the process, the defeat of the West. All crimes committed by the Jihadis will be defined as the fault of those who resist. All crimes of the jihadis will be held to be the fault of the West and its leaders because we have not surrendered fast enough. The suicidal impulse at the heart of modern liberalism, long ago diagnosed by James Burnham, in the Cold War context, is still there, a dark festering sore at center of the soul of too many people in the West. More than that, it is a weak spot in our defenses, an opening to our enemies which threatens us all.

The left has been awash in moral equivocation for 80 years; first, we were no better than Stalin (worse, according to some on the American left, for a while at least); then it was the Nazis (plenty of Americans, including many on the left, thought making trains run on time was just dandy at the beginning of the Nazi era); then the Chicoms, the North Koreans (remember their "economic miracle" in the sixties?), and the Palestians, and now the Jihadis; many on the left have tried us against them (all of the "thems") and found us wanting.

And while Kerry is trying to keep that side of himself and his past quiet, it's there; he's the guy who met with the Viet Cong, who coddled the Sandinistas, who would have let Hussein hold Kuwait in 1991.

New slogan: "Kerry/Edwards: Because Jihadis are people too".

Posted by Mitch at October 13, 2004 06:31 AM | TrackBack