Webloggin » Another Swipe at Us Dumb Ol’ Americans by the "Smarter" Left

Remember way back, probably as recently as yesterday, when the left shouted from the highest mountain that President Bush tricked Americans into thinking that Iraq was involved in 9-11?

Seemingly oblivious to the fact that this lie was a myth conjured up by the left themselves they are at it again.

Today I found this lead comment on yet another Huffington Post smear on Israel.

Here is a good piece by Eric Margolis…
“The spreading war in Lebanon has bared the bizarre contradictions and self-destructive nature of U.S. Mideast policy…”
“Americans, steeped in deep ignorance and prejudice about the Mideast, are now being misled by the administration and its media allies that Lebanon is a new front in the so-called war on terrorism. As I recently learned doing radio shows across the U.S., a great many Americans cannot distinguish between Hezbollah, al-Qaida, Taliban, the PLO, Hamas, etc. All are terrorists. Listeners even called in to ask if the fighting in Lebanon was the prelude to Armageddon.”

Yup, there you have it. Us dumb ol’ merkans are being fooled by President Bush once again. We just can’t seem to get it into our little heads that the Lebanese people are different from the Hezbollah terrorists.

American’s know very well how to differentiate between these groups, the civilians and the governments who support terrorists. Contrarily it is the left who can’t seem to get their heads out of their asses and put the pieces of the puzzle together. Shit, they probably couldn’t event complete a connect the dots roadmap of terrorist links. “I don’t like how you linked the Iranians at dot number one to the Hezbollah at dot number 2; shouldn’t the Americans and Israel be somewhere in between?”

Apparently Margolis himself is confused as demonstrated by listing the PLO and Hamas as simple separate entities. Yes, they are separate groups. We can consider them as separate entities in this manner but that changed since the Palestinian authority voted Hamas deputies in as automatic members. The PLO also supports Hamas in many ways. Thus they are very much integrated even in the face of conflicts with their own separate internal structures.

The point being that the least common denominator does not serve to portray the intricate commonalities that link one terrorist group to another.

Contrarily, listing these groups under the umbrella label of terrorist organizations does just that. Something the left can’t seem to bring themselves to be able to do for whatever the reasons. Rather they downplay these links and ignore that which doesn’t directly implicate the United States in some broader imperialist plot from their point of view.

Try as they might to deny it, the left has a huge problem. Their base is anti-Israel, anti-capitalist, anti-corporation, anti-military and thus anti-American. It is true; they may as well own it.

The Democrats are going to have to perform a pretty interesting balancing act for the upcoming elections. The Democrats have courted the lunatic HuffPos for the better part of six years. The fringe is now an integral part of their misinformation network. How will the party of Cindy Sheehan and Howard Dean pull themselves to the center, keep their base and convince the dumb ol’ American people that they are the party of the future?

Update: Margolis and those of his ilk can play the moral equivalency card all they want. They can blame the United States, take the side of the terrorists through their own ignorance and revise history until the cows come home. Nothing the left can do or say will erase the scars of terrorism that has become the signature calling card of cowards who think nothing of blowing apart, targeting and hiding behind innocent men, women and children.

The Right State brings a reminder:

How soon we have forgotten the horrors of terrorism. Hezbollah does not act any different than does al-Queda. Too many Americans forget that it was Hezbollah who targeted and killed 241 US Marines in Lebanon in 1983. All the US was doing in Lebanon was maintaining a buffer zone. For their actions, the terrorist group Hezbollah murdered 241 Americans. Hezbollah, Iran, and Syria are the aggressors in this current conflict. Considering all of their past actions, we should let Israel finish the job they started and let them destroy this terrorist group. We at least owe that much to the families of the Marines killed in 1983.

Update II: Yes, I know that Margolis called all of the above mentioned groups terrorists. But that is not without lumping the United States in with them. This is the moral equivalence of the left. They are saying, “yes, the terrorists are bad, but America is too”.

The other point is that he believes that Americans can’t distinguish between “Hezbollah, al-Qaida, Taliban, the PLO, Hamas, etc”, which I don’t believe to be true. But let’s imagine that it is true and that your common MTV watching American can’t differentiate between Hezbollah and Hamas. Does that mean that American’s don’t know a terrorist when they see one or that one group of terrorists is better than the other? I think not.

The left’s attempt to get us to differentiate between terrorists underscores their contention that all terrorists are not alike and that we need to understand their motivation before we pass judgment.

For me, any necessity for such understanding became moot the minute they decided that blowing children from limb to limb was a strategy for success. This is the strategy taken by killers and murderers. Their god can be their judge after we have removed them from the face of the earth. He will give them all the understanding they need.

One final point. You will notice that I emphasized how Margolis stated that this is a “so-called war on terrorism”. This is key to understanding the difference between liberals and conservatives. So-called is an oft-repeated phrase that precedes any mention of the war on the left. This is not an accident; it is their belief. Conservatives are seeing the bigger picture here and that makes all the difference to me.