Some of these fools give the RWers all the ammo they need [View All]

[WildEyedLiberal]

I just LOVE it when DUers apologize for terrorists and communists: because after all, anyone who opposes the evil U.S. capitalist-pig war juggernaut is automatically double-plus-good. Al Qaeda? They're just fighting against all the myriad injustices the U.S. pig-bastards have wreaked upon their peace-loving nations, and who can blame them? It's heroic, really. And the Hanoi Hilton really wasn't any more than those American fighter pilots deserved, after all. The North Vietnamese were just freedom fighters, after all.
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This diatribe in no way is meant to exculpate the U.S. from any guilt over its poor foreign policy choices; to the contrary, to fight al-Qaeda effectively, we must know how to win the hearts and minds of Arab people, to understand why they hate us, and to work proactively to make allies of these people.

HOWEVER. These stinky hippies in their Che shirts and sandals confuse criticism of U.S. policy with support for those whose stated intentions are to kill as many Americans as possible, and that is borderline treasonous. These Chomskyesque Pol Pot and Ho Chi Minh and Saddam and Osama apologists just give Rush and company fucking GRIST FOR THE MILL. They ENABLE the RW to paint us all with the broad "un-American" brushstroke. And I'm sick and tired of pretending that I hold any ideological similarity to them. The enemy of my enemy is NOT my friend. I do not support these people, and I will not defend them out of some misguided sense of alliance. Just because they are "leftist" does NOT mean that their black-and-white dogmatism is any less odious than the right's.

Do I think the U.S. (under Republican presidents, for the most part) has made horrible and amoral foreign policy decisions? Of course. Look at Reagan and GW. Do I think, as does Chomsky, that the U.S. is continuing the work of Hitler, and that all who oppose us violently, even including butchers such as Pol Pot and Osama, are somehow justified, or that American soldiers deserve to die in their enactment of said foreign policy? HELL NO. So, a big resounding FUCK YOU to all the lefty freepers out there. You no more represent my views than George W. Bush.

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EDIT: No offense intended to real, actual hippies.