"Why the Left Loves Osama" -- extremely humorous RW rant

[TexasLawyer]

I need a wall-chart to follow some of these convoluted argument. But you really can't argue with his conclusion-- that we folk on the left have "a clear goal: the destruction of the country and society that vanquished its dreams fifteen years ago (by bringing down the Berlin Wall on our Communist fellow-travelers)."

I'm glad the author shows how "the contemporary left will do its best to turn democracy into a suicidal pact" because I SO did not realize this! I thought I was trying to SAVE my country. Who knew?



Why the Left Loves Osama
By Nelson Ascher
Europundits.blogspot.com | February 11, 2005

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Bill Clinton asking non-stop the world to forgive his country’s sins and his reluctance to take decisive action after many terrorist attacks projected a re-comforting image of a repentant, humbled and weakened America.

Those whom the fall of the Berlin Wall had left orphans of a cause, spent the next decade plotting the containment of the US. It was a complex operation that involved the (in many cases state-sponsored) mushrooming of NGOs, Kyoto, the creation of the ICC, the salami tactics applied against America’s main strategic ally in the Middle-East, Israel, through the Trojan Horse of the Oslo agreements, the subversion of the sanctions against Iraq etc. I’m not as conspiratorially-minded as to think that all these efforts were in any way centralized or that they had some kind of master-plan behind them. It was above all the case of the spirit of the times converging, through many independent manifestations, towards a single goal. Nonetheless we can be sure that, after those manifestations reached a critical mass, there has been no lack of efforts to coordinate them.

And so, spontaneously up to a point, anti-Americanism became the alternative ideology that came to fill in the vacuum left by the failure of traditional, USSR-based communism and its Maoist or Trotskyite satellites. Before 1989, the global left had something to fight for: either the strengthening of the communist states or the correction of what they called their bureaucratic distortions. To fight for something is simultaneously to fight against whatever threatens it, and thus, the leftists were anti-Western and anti-Americans too, anti-capitalistic in short.

Now, whatever they wanted to defend or protect doesn’t exist anymore. They have only things to destroy, and all those things are personified in the US, in its very existence. They may, outwardly, fight for some positive cause: save the whales, rescue the world from global heating and so on. But let’s not be deceived by this: they choose as their so-called positive causes only the ones that have both the potential of conferring some kind of innocent legitimacy on themselves and, much more important, that of doing most harm to their enemy, whether physically or to its image.

We, well, at least I was wrong to dismiss the pre-1989 leftists as dinosaurs condemned to extinction by evolution. While I was looking the other way, they were regrouping, inventing new slogans, creating new tactics and, above all, keeping the flames of their hatred burning. The history is still to be written about the moment when the left made its collective mind up and decided to strike an alliance with radical Islam. It had been tried before, in Iran/79, but, threatened by the USSR to the north and by its Iraqi client to the West, Khomeini didn’t have much time for the local leftists, nor did he need them. The idea of such an alliance was probably (re)-born in several different minds and in several different places, and it would be as difficult to say exactly where it took place first as it is to say which grain of corn is the first to pop when one’s making pop-corn. All that can be said is that, right now, we have a “fait accompli”.

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http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=16969

[Guaranteed]

1. LOL and here I thought it was the right-wingers who were using

Osama to push through THEIR agenda- while simultaneously doing nothing about him.

[Maraya1969]

2. I think that person needs his meds checked

:crazy:

[Shredr]

3. Silly NeoCons, they're projecting again

Always accusing us of exactly what they're doing. (That way, they can say, "Nuh-uh, we said it first" when they're figured out.)

[Make7]

4. I think the best thing about frontpagemag.com....

is the comment section for each story. They get some real "interesting" posters there to say the least. Almost always good for a laugh.

:) Make7

[NashVegas]

5. "They have only things to destroy" - That's Funny Shit

"They have only things to destroy, and all those things are personified in the US, in its very existence."

I am reminded of the adage (paraphrasing) about how we often dislike certain people because we see in them the less-desired aspects of our own personalities.

How many DUers know a fundie who, in the wake of 9/11, looked forward to bringing on the Rapture with our little middle east war? I know one who was openly admitting it.

Raise your hand if you recall Robertson & Falwell's chat about "god lifting his veil of protection" on the US.

[Dark]

6. Global Heating?

He makes it sound like we have just an air conditioning problem. . .

[AntiCoup2K4]

7. What this article REALLY does is tell the truth about the right wing....

...and that's the fact that as long as the Soviet Union existed, they had an enemy to force their hatred on. Though as facts have come out over the years, even the Soviet threat was exaggerated a great deal - by none other than Rummy & Cheney, no less.

So after the convenient Russian bear finally took it's final hibernation, they tried in vain to make a new enemy. Saddam Hussein filled the gap for a whole 8 months or so in 1990-91. At the 1992 Repuke convention, they tried to make it a "culture war". Then they spent the next 8 years fighting Bill Clinton.

Unfortunately, fighting Clinton's penis and homosexual cartoon characters may keep the Republicans hating, but it does nothing for the profit margin of the "military industrial complex". So a new enemy had to be manufactured. And this time they literally created one out of thin air. We don't know who the terraists are or where they are or how many of em there are or how long it will take to find em, but they're real, goddamn it, because Our Great Fűhrer says so! Never mind that he's failed at EVERYTHING his entire life, as has his "Vice" pResident. That's not important now, only our good ol' Hatriotism is!!