Liberals at War
Guess What Liberals, We've Been at War for a Long Time!!
By Daniel G. Jennings
One of the few advantages of reading The Denver Post every morning is to see the idiocy of liberal thought processes in action. Case in point the column by Cindy Rodriguez that occasionally appears in the B section, or the Tuesday, April 26, 2004, column "Nightmare of Iraq War far from over."
The gist of the column is that Rodriguez recently woke up and learned from National Public Radio the astonishing fact that the United States is at war with Iraq. She is suddenly concerned because American military personnel, working class types she probably wouldn't talk to are dying over there. This one year after the American invasion and occupation of Iraq. Where has Ms. Rodriguez been for the last year? Or for the matter for the last 14 years? America has been at war with Iraq since 1990 when Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait and started threatening our oil supply. We fought a major land campaign against Iraq in 1991 and were fighting air battles with Iraq between 1991 and 2003.
On another level America has been at war with extremist elements in the Arab and Islamic World since the early 1980s. These extremists have been killing American military personnel on a regular basis since then. These extremists have blown up our embassies overseas, and have even attacked America twice since then. On Sept. 11, they killed nearly 3,000 people in the heart of New York City. If the destruction of the World Trade Center wasn't evidence that we were at war with these people what was? No Saddam didn't commit that atrocity but other extremists who are now waging war on us in Iraq did.
Yet, Ms. Rodriguez can't see this, she blames George W. Bush for deceiving the American people. According to her it was George Bush and his lies that created this war, not the Koran thumping morons and Arab nationalist idiots who started the violence. This is nonsense Bush didn't start the war he committed the terrible crime (in the liberal mind) of actually trying to fight and win it.
Her broken record says Bush's lies caused this war, so if we just vote Mr. Bush out in November the terrible war will go away. This is garbage if Mr. Kerry is elected the war will still be going on, then who will we blame then? Will in two or three or years the liberals brand Mr. Kerry an evil warmonger and try to destroy him for waging war on the terrorists?
Ms. Rodriguez's column demonstrates what is wrong with the news media and the liberal elite that runs much of it today. They can't see what's happening out in the world beyond America's borders: we are at war. Vicious fanatics are trying to kill us and destroy our way of life. They will stop at nothing to destroy us and they will die for the chance to do that. The only way we'll probably be able to stop them is to kill them or beat them on the battlefield.
So why do liberals have so much trouble seeing this obvious reality? Simple, it contradicts the whole view of the world taught them by their college professors. The professors said if we just embraced multiculturalism, placed our faith in the UN and tried to be nice to everyone else we would have world peace. The existence of vicious fanatics that want to destroy us and the UN disproves these fantasies and places their whole world view in jeopardy.
The liberal reaction to this reality is to stick one's head in the sand and pretend it isn't so. Then when that fails to look for a bogie man to blame the mess upon, since Islamic terrorists couldn't have started the war the Republicans must have.
Hopefully the liberals will wake up and in the near future realize that the only way to end the nightmare of this horrible war is to win it by actually defeating the bad guys on the battlefield. I believe that'll happen, the problem is that it'll take the dead bodies of hundreds perhaps thousands more Americans and probably tens of thousands of Arabs, civilian and military to convince these people that we're at war and that we have to fight.