Blogs For Victory

And some people might wonder, from time to time, why I find liberalism so nauseating – from Guernica:

…We might ask ourselves how we would be reacting if Iraqi commandos landed at George W. Bush’s compound, assassinated him, and dumped his body in the Atlantic. Uncontroversially, his crimes vastly exceed bin Laden’s, and he is not a “suspect” but uncontroversially the “decider” who gave the orders to commit the “supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole” (quoting the Nuremberg Tribunal) for which Nazi criminals were hanged: the hundreds of thousands of deaths, millions of refugees, destruction of much of the country, the bitter sectarian conflict that has now spread to the rest of the region.

There’s more to say about [Cuban airline bomber Orlando] Bosch, who just died peacefully in Florida, including reference to the “Bush doctrine” that societies that harbor terrorists are as guilty as the terrorists themselves and should be treated accordingly. No one seemed to notice that Bush was calling for invasion and destruction of the U.S. and murder of its criminal president…

And that is our liberalism, folks – divorced from reality, wallowing in unreasonable hatred. Our criminal President? You mean the guy who was elected by the people of the United States and who got Congressional authorization – on top of repeated previous authorizations not just from Congress, but from the UN? That criminal President? Yeah, not only is he no better than bin Laden, he’s worse…after all, if you read all of Chomsky’s piece, you’ll note that he’s not at all sure that bin Laden had anything to do with 9/11…just this odd, turbaned guy that we went after for no discernible reason…

Except, aha!, there as a reason…we wanted blood for oil! We hate Arabs! We hate Moslems! We hate, hate, hate…and we’re all defense contractors; those of us, at least, who aren’t working for Haliburton! And when we’re not deliberately starting wars for profit, we’re beating puppies to death with tire irons.

But the hate, really, is all inside Chomsky and his like – and it is very sad to see. Your mind has to boiling with rage in order to get that disconnected from reality – to both think that bin Laden might be innocent, and President Bush worthy of a Nuremburg tribunal.

Here is a better take on the event:

…Although he admits it is difficult to rejoice when someone is dead, Father Marciano believes that the United States’ relentless pursuit of bin Laden, who he called “the chief criminal of the world,” will send a strong message to terrorists that they will pay a price for the harm they do to others.

“It was done right, and in this case, there was no other alternative,” he said. “You can run and you can hide, but our intelligence forces are going to get you.”…

That is what comes out of a man who doesn’t hate – out of a man who merely wants justice to be done, and peace to prevail. Killing is never something we should enjoy, or even want to have happen…but some times some people by their own actions put themselves so far outside the law that there is no other answer. That was the case of bin Laden – the blood of many thousands of innocents is on his hands; not people killed as an unfortunate result of honorable war, but innocents murdered deliberately, as part of policy. There is a gigantic difference between a bin Laden and any American President – whether it be Bush who started looking for bin Laden or Obama who finally ordered the deed done. And it is a terrible pity that all too many liberals have so warped themselves that they can’t see the difference.