It would be comical if the fate of our country and the world didn\u2019t hang in the balance to watch the Democrats and their neoconservative Republican rivals point blame at one another as ISIS assumes the national stage.<\/p>\n
Some thoughts on this internecine battle between these two birds of the same leftist feather are in order.<\/p>\n
(1)The cold, hard truth of the matter is that the contemporary left, of which Obama is a textbook exhibition, sympathize <\/em>with the world\u2019s Muslims\u2014including and especially <\/em>those Muslims who engage in violence.<\/p>\n It\u2019s true that few leftists would want to admit this, even to themselves. But the logic of their worldview demands such sympathy.<\/p>\n Some eminent talk radio hosts\u2019 assertions to the contrary aside, it isn\u2019t America <\/em>that is the object of the leftist\u2019s scorn; it is white <\/em>America that enjoys this distinction. And white, American, heterosexual Christian men are at the bottom of the heap, the most ravenous, \u201cracist\u201d \u201coppressors\u201d to have ever roamed the Earth.<\/p>\n However, most of the world\u2019s Muslims are, well, Muslim: they are not <\/em>Christian.\u00a0 Moreover, most are not white, but \u201cpeople of color.\u201d\u00a0 Thirdly, Islamic lands are for the most part satellites of the \u201cthird world\u201d\u2014i.e. they are decidedly not <\/em>instances of \u201ccapitalist\u201d societies.<\/p>\n Finally\u2014and the importance of this, from the leftist\u2019s vantage point, must not be understated\u2014Islam is a militant <\/em>religion whose adherents, as we have seen, are strongly disposed to resort to violence, murderous violence, in resisting what the left can only view as the \u201coppressive\u201d or \u201cimperialistic\u201d treatment to which America\u2014to repeat, white, Christian, affluent America\u2014<\/em>has subjected them.<\/p>\n Like it or not, beside that of the jihadist, the image of the Islamic terrorist taking up Muhammad\u2019s sword against the Western, American infidel fits nowhere as nicely as it fits in the imagination of the contemporary Western leftist.<\/p>\n (2)Though it is distinct from that of the recognizable <\/em>leftist, it is not of an entirely different breed. In other words, the neoconservative shares in common with other leftists a utopian\/Big Government vision.\u00a0 The difference between the two is one of emphasis, not of kind: while Obama and company want to grow government for the sake of engineering\u2014\u201cfundamentally transforming\u201d\u2014America, neoconservatives want to grow government for the sake of engineering\u2014\u201cfundamentally transforming\u201d\u2014the rest of the world.<\/p>\n The invasion of Iraq was a catastrophic mistake, one that incurred incalculable costs in blood and treasure. It also cost the Republicans the House, the Senate, and the White House.\u00a0 If not for the removal of the largely secular dictators that our \u201cdemocratizing\u201d efforts affected, the Middle East wouldn\u2019t be at the mercy of militant Islamic rulers and terrorists today.<\/p>\n But, the neoconservative now <\/em>protests, we \u201cwon\u201d Iraq.\u00a0 We established a functional \u201cdemocracy.\u201d If only Obama hadn\u2019t downsized our troop presence in Iraq, it would\u2019ve remained a reasonably peaceful place.<\/p>\n While it\u2019s true that the immediate <\/em>cause of the conflagration that is contemporary Iraq is the removal of American troops, the mediate <\/em>cause was the removal of Saddam Hussein.<\/p>\n At least as important, we \u201cwon\u201d nothing. <\/em><\/p>\n Let\u2019s suppose that you hire someone to build you a house. This person assures you that it will cost only X amount of dollars, and that the house will be built no later than such-and-such a date.\u00a0 But, your contractor promises you, he will build you the greatest house that you could ever imagine.\u00a0 You accept.<\/p>\n Yet time rolls on and the deadline for completion comes and goes. New deadlines are set and ignored.\u00a0 The exponential increase in the passage of time is accompanied by an exponential increase in the funds that you wind up spending.\u00a0 All the while, your contractor continues to assure you that he\u2019s closing in on completing the mission.<\/p>\n Finally, he comes to you one day and announces the good news: He\u2019s done it. The house is finished.\u00a0 Relieved, you eagerly plan to relocate to your new home.<\/p>\n But when you arrive, you notice that your contractor is camped out in your living room propping up your roof with some of his tools. He explains that if he leaves now, your roof will collapse.\u00a0 He doesn\u2019t know how long he will have to remain there\u2014maybe forever, or at least as long as it takes to prevent your house from imploding in on itself.\u00a0 In the meantime, though, you will have to continue paying him.<\/p>\n No one<\/em> in their right mind would view this as success.<\/p>\n Yet this <\/em>was our situation in Iraq: As soon as we left, the whole country was reduced to a cauldron of violence.\u00a0 Insofar as American lives and taxpayers\u2019 monies had to remain in Iraq in order to prevent a takeover from ISIS or any other terrorist organization, many things could be said of this circumstance, but that it was a success<\/em> was not one of them.<\/p>\n The truth\u2014not the ideology, but the truth\u2014of the matter is that both <\/em>leftist Democrats and leftist neoconservative Republicans are responsible for the mess that is Iraq.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It would be comical if the fate of our country and the world didn\u2019t hang in the balance to watch the Democrats and their neoconservative Republican rivals point blame at one another as ISIS assumes the national stage. 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