Dec 4, 2003 | Dollars & Crosses
In a disgusting op-ed titled "Why We Fight: Iraq From the Other Side" the Ted Rall summarizes the views of the Anti-American-Left, in the form of a fictional letter by a pro-Saddam terrorist--I mean "freedom fighter." His goal is to attack what good, pro-American elements there are in George Bush's foreign policy--what he does do is show how similar the Far Left's views are to those terrorists who hate America.
Quoting Ted Rall:
...Thank you for joining the Iraqi resistance forces...Our leaders include generals of President Saddam Hussein's secular government as well as fundamentalist Islamists....we must kill as many Americans as possible... As the Afghan resistance to the Soviets and the Americans' own revolution against our former colonial masters the British have proven, it will only be a matter of time before the U.S. occupation forces become demoralized.
The American revolutionaries were fighting for individual rights, Saddam's remaining thugs are fighting for...
Back to quoting Rall:
Indeed, the soldiers are themselves oppressed members of America's vast underclass. Many don't want to be here; joining America's mercenary army is the only way they can afford to attend university.
Because everyone knows the only way you can pay for college in America is by joining the army?
...Others, because they are poor and uneducated, do not understand that they are being used as pawns in Dick Cheney's cynical oil war.
So why doesn't the Left foil Cheney and open up ANWR?
...In this vein we must also take action against our own Iraqi citizens who choose to collaborate with the enemy. ... If someone you know is considering taking a job with the Americans, tell him that he is engaging in treason and encourage him to seek honest work instead. If he refuses, you must kill him...
And if that doesn't work you can always join the anti-globalization "peace" protests and throw rocks at policeman, sing Hosannas to Marx, and steal property that "rightfully" belongs to the proletariat. And after that you can complain to sympathetic CBS, NBC, and ABC reporters about how those nasty police officers hit you back with rubber bullets.
Take to heart this warning of Cuban revolutionary Ché Guevara..."The guerrilla fighter needs full help from the people of the area.... " If the Americans are right about us, and we enjoy no popular support, we deserve to be annihilated.
Prepare for your destruction.
Cartoons courtesy of the ever brilliant Cox and Forkum.Dec 3, 2003 | Dollars & Crosses
From the Taipei Times:President Chen Shui-bian has detailed the arsenal of Chinese missiles targeting Taiwan in his latest move to build a case for a contentious sovereignty vote next year. Chen said late Sunday it was the first time he had specified the location of bases within 600km holding 496 ballistic missiles pointed at Taiwan. The move is likely to inflame already tense relations with Beijing. His latest comments, at an election rally, have already prompted criticism from the opposition camp, which claimed he had leaked military secrets...
..."And they often held war games threatening to attack Taiwan ... this is the ongoing threat toward Taiwan," Chen said while addressing a group of supporters. Chen said he could not work out why Taiwan had to accept an imposed political design of "one country, two systems" or face an invasion.
...Commenting on Lin Yu-fan's criticism, James Huang, a Presidential Office spokesman, said yesterday that what Chen had revealed was China's national secrets, not Taiwan's. [December 02, 2003]
Dec 3, 2003 | Dollars & Crosses
From Cox and Forkum:
From the UN's Annan announces "solidarity" with Palestinians:"[Israeli actions] have undermined efforts to curb violence and fuelled hatred and anger towards Israel. They have pushed back the day when Israel will live without fear within secure and recognised borders," [UN Secretary General Kofi Annan] said in a statement. I wish to join with those from around the world who today express the deepest solidarity with the Palestinian people in their continued suffering. They remain stateless and oppressed."
Of course he made the perfunctory qualifications about Palestinian terrorism, saying there was "no justification" for it. But this in no way mitigates that he placed primary blame on Israel, the victim. Completely evading the fact that Palestinian leadership is neck-deep in terrorism, he goes on to say:"Let us resolve not to rest until the Palestinian people finally obtain what is rightfully theirs," Annan said, "the exercise of their inalienable rights in a sovereign and independent state of Palestine."
No one has the "inalienable right" to establish a terrorist dictatorship, which is exactly what Arafat has so far established. But Annan was merely joining the chorus of anti-Israel sentiment, which was lead by Jimmy Carter: Carter slams Israel, Bush in Geneva speech."No matter what leaders Palestinians might choose, no matter how fervent American interests might be or how great the hatred and bloodshed might become, there is one basic choice for the Israelis: Do you want peace with their neighbors or do you want to retain settlements throughout the occupied territories?" [...] Carter said the main flaw of the US-brokered road map is its step-by-step approach, which he said has allowed Israel to stop its advance by building "an enormous barrier wall" and with "the colonization of Gaza."
Carter, too, had the standard, lame qualifications about Palestinian "violence," but it's clear who he thinks is to blame for it. Like Annan, Carter must evade the full context, which is that Israel occupies those territories as a matter of national self-defense against neighboring Arab nations who have repeatedly launched wars of aggression. The article quotes a senior Israeli government official government official who puts the situation in its proper perspective:
"[Carter] should take a visit to our cemeteries and see what Arafat brought upon us after being offered everything [former prime minister Ehud] Barak offered him at Camp David and Taba."
Recommend Reading:Dec 3, 2003 | Dollars & Crosses
Hillel Halkin doesn't appear to grasp that there is no such thing as a right to "national self-determination," but at least he sees the hypocrisy of those waving its banner:
[T]he response of the Madrid government to the Basque and Catalonian independence movements is curious. Self-determination for the nationalities of the earth? Of course, claro, bien sur! Just not for our nationalities. Nor, in fact, for most others. The Palestinians, it seems, deserve a state of their own; so, perhaps, do the Kosovan Albanians; so, too, did the inhabitants of East Timor. But what about the Chechens? The Tibetans? The Kurds of Turkey? The Christians of southern Sudan? What about the Tamils of Sri Lanka, the Papuans of Indonesian New Guinea, the Uighurs of China, the Karens of Burma? Each of these peoples has its own culture and language... each has taken up arms in its own cause....Sheer cant, too, is the commonly spouted mantra that Israel's struggle with the Palestinians is a futile exercise in failure, since wars of "national liberation" are inherently just and can never be defeated. Wars of national liberation have often been defeated, the Tibetans' doomed uprising against the Chinese and the Kurds' hopeless battle against the Turks being cases in point. Such wars triumph when political, military, and demographic circumstances are in their favor; they lose when they are not. [Daily Sun, Nov 25, 2003]
Dec 2, 2003 | Dollars & Crosses
Cash isn't king in NY charter election reports the NY Sun: Bloomberg spent $7.4 million to support an amendment to the city charter; his opponents just over $500,000--yet they won overwhelmingly, 72% to 29%.Dec 2, 2003 | Dollars & Crosses
From Cox and Forkum:
FoxNews had a couple of interesting tidbits about the efforts of Hollywood leftists to bring down President Bush. Billionaires Bundle Funds for Democrats contained this:Defeating President Bush in 2004 has become a central focus in the life of billionaire George Soros, and he's ready to put his money where his mouth is. Soros has pledged $15 million of his personal wealth to activists working to undo Bush's presidency. [...] [E]lectronic pop guru Moby has teamed up with Soros' son Jonathan Soros, actress Janeane Garofalo and other pop stars for a contest urging amateur filmmakers to produce their own 30-second anti-Bush videos.
And FoxNews also reported: Robbins' 'Embedded' Play Not So Realistic.[Actor and "anti-war" activist Tim] Robbins portrays journalists as Pentagon puppets, U.S. soldiers as thieves and killers of innocent women and children, and the Bush cabinet as war mongers willing to start a war to escape the negative publicity of the Enron scandal.
FoxNews had embedded reporters in Iraq, so the news organization also sent someone to view Robbins' play. Marine Maj. Rich Doherty, who has a Ph.D. from Berkeley, fought in Iraq and worked alongside several embedded journalists, had this to say about the play:"It was spun to make it look like that leadership started this war simply for its own political agenda … and that can't be further from the truth," Doherty said. [...] "I'm giving you an opinion based on what I saw with my boots on the ground and in the sand."
Of course, it's not like the truth has ever stopped leftists in their propaganda efforts. They even deny it's propaganda. An audience member performed mental contortions in defense of the play:"It is not propaganda. It is a voice of dissent, which is different than propaganda."
Yeah, right ... and terrorists are "freedom fighters."
Recommended Reading:- Preserving America: George Soros versus Thomas Jefferson As the anniversary of our country's founding approaches, it is important to understand not only what our country stands for but what is required to protect it.
- First Amendment Bull: Tim Robbins vs. Free Speech Lately, it seems as if almost every week some leftist celebrity finds the time and energy to publicly demonstrate their gross misunderstanding of a simple two-word phrase: "free speech." This week, it is actor Tim Robbins.
- When Hollywood Went to War It only took 60 years for Hollywood to go from producing war heroes to a group of hypocrites and pacifists, none of whom would be free to make movies without America's Revolutionary War
