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| The New Anti-Semitism? [Why the Left Has Gone Nuts] |
| 2004-07-18 |
| Severely EFL; go read it all. Hat tip: LGF ... This hatred has been the hallmark of the Left's attitude to the USA throughout the ten years since [Gulf War I], steadily strengthening, not at all mitigated - on the contrary, noticeably sharpened - by the events of September 11, and hugely exacerbated by the recent, second, war against Iraq, about which there was some real moral ambiguity. Today, it has reached the proportions of an epidemic, with disturbing additional characteristics. Anti-Americanism has become a superstition. Fear, loathing, fury and resentment have combined to produce something that resembles nothing so much as a new form of virulent anti-Semitism. Within the USA and without, tirades are daily directed against America, its values, its founding fathers, its policies past and present, its very being. Intellectuals as notable as Gore Vidal Vidal an "intellectual"? HA! have allowed themselves to descend to conspiracy theories about September 11 that would shame even an undergraduate. "Bush knew about it in advance and allowed it to happen in order to give him a pretext for invading Afghanistan and seizing its oil" - this summarises, I think, the startling truth Vidal unleashed on the world. Such a construction would do the authors of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion proud. And Vidal didn't even have to forge anything; his audience was never going to ask to see the evidence. Nor will their fellow travelers, the media. As Alice once remarked: "What on earth is going on?" The reasons are not all that hard to find. It's about an ideology in defeat and retreat, yet not acknowledging either. And I doubt it ever will. They're sure that if they just keep hating harder and harder, they'll finally win. |
| Posted by:Barbara Skolaut |