More Outcry

Christopher Hitchens, "who knows the sectarian makeup of the Left very well," excoriates protest sponsors ANSWER and United for Peace and Justice, as well as the MSM shielding them:

To be against war and militarism, in the tradition of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, is one thing. But to have a record of consistent support for war and militarism, from the Red Army in Eastern Europe to the Serbian ethnic cleansers and the Taliban, is quite another. It is really a disgrace that the liberal press refers to such enemies of liberalism as "antiwar" when in reality they are straight-out pro-war, but on the other side. Was there a single placard saying, "No to Jihad"? Of course not. Or a single placard saying, "Yes to Kurdish self-determination" or "We support Afghan women's struggle"? Don't make me laugh. . .

There are only two serious attempts at swamp-draining currently under way. In Afghanistan and Iraq, agonizingly difficult efforts are in train to build roads, repair hospitals, hand out ballot papers, frame constitutions, encourage newspapers and satellite dishes, and generally evolve some healthy water in which civil-society fish may swim. But in each case, from within the swamp and across the borders, the most poisonous snakes and roaches are being recruited and paid to wreck the process and plunge people back into the ooze. How nice to have a "peace" movement that is either openly on the side of the vermin, or neutral as between them and the cleanup crew, and how delightful to have a press that refers to this partisanship, or this neutrality, as "progressive."

This is a must-read. I'm glad Hitchens saw the light and moved right. Why are other journalists still fooled?

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Combs Spouts Off:

Honorable and reasonable people opposed the invasion of Iraq, including many libertarians. Some are people I admire, like, and consider friends. But as far back as the earliest pre-invasion demonstrations, I argued that regardless of one's position on Iraq, no decent person should participate in, lend support to, or join forces with any "anti-war" movement organized and run by the totalitarian scum of International ANSWER and the Worker's World Party. . .

If you're opposed to the war against Islamofascism and/or the battle in Iraq, the very fact that such contemptible thugs are the major force that shares your point of view ought to make you think hard.