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Better Talk This Over ...06/23/2005 03:54:48 pm
Scanning the mainstream media today can't help but provoke an observation or two. There is outrage amongst Democrats over Karl Rove's remarks about September 11th, and the difference between the conservative and liberal responses to that attack. Specifically, he said that while conservatives understood what had happened and "prepared for war," liberals wanted to "prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers." Compare, if you will, the reaction of Democrats to this (and by the way, since they're so angry, does this mean that they are admitting to being "liberals?" They usually run screaming from that designation ... ) versus the reaction of those outraged by Senator Durbin's remarks on Nazis and Stalinists at Guantanamo.
In the case of Durbin's insults to the military, those condemning him were quick to point out how he was wrong on the facts. Mostly, he was off by many millions of dead bodies. Nazi death camps, Gulags, Cambodia = tens of millions murdered. Guantanamo Bay = none actually dead at this point, but hundreds of Islamic Jihadists gaining weight from regular meals. (Perhaps they are in danger from that other Yankee scourge - obesity.)
In the case of Karl Rove's remarks, I fail to see any of his critics - who are calling for their immediate retraction or his own resignation - actually pointing out in what way he is mistaken. And indeed, how could they? The Democratic Party is, right now, making common cause with our enemies, on the time-honored principle of "the enemy of my enemy is my friend." And since George W. Bush is the real enemy, then naturally bloody-minded jihadists everywhere - who also hate Bush- must be the true friends of the Democratic Party. Hence, Durbin's perception that it made sense to label Americans as Nazis and portray fanatical and murderous captives as their hapless victims. He was doing nothing more than articulating on the floor of the Senate what has come to be the common opinion of the most motivated, vocal and powerful elements of the Democratic Party. A small and current example being the patriotic band of civil libertarians who are dedicating themselves to reviewing thousands of pages of information about Guantanamo, already released by the U.S., in order to "root out even the smallest signs of government misconduct."
This, at a time when their nation is at war, seems to these people to be a productive use of their own time; they will comb through tons of minutiae for any indication that the friends and allies of those who killed 3,000 people on September 11th, 2001 might have some cause for complaint, no matter how trivial. And then, like Senator Durbin, they will no doubt trumpet whatever they can find in the most exaggerated light, in order to deride their own country's military, and give a public relations bonanza to the enemy. "U.S. Senator Compares American Guards to Nazis." "American Civil Libertarians Declare Rights Being Denied To Muslim Detainees." Meanwhile, Democrats daily seize on every bit of bad news from Iraq as a reason to pull out the troops - and in so doing effectively magnify the power of every car bomb, and provide further motivation for every already crazed car bomber.
It can give no joy to anyone that this is the state of politics in America today. The term, "loyal opposition," is supposed to mean just that: A party in opposition to the incumbent party, while remaining within the bounds of loyalty to the nation's interests. Perhaps if Joe Lieberman took a few like-minded Dems and started a splinter party, we might have a loyal opposition in this country again, instead of a party that is effectively in opposition, first and foremost, to America.
This is what Karl Rove was getting at, in a manner far more gentle than I. Democrats should take his words as well-timed advice. Instead, they are choosing to take on an argument that they cannot win - because his words were accurate, and are only becoming more so as the weeks and months pass.
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