The
War Within The War
Justin
Darr
02/14/2005
On
March 5th, 2002, long before there was a Camp X-Ray, American Petty
Officer Neil Roberts fell out of his helicopter while on an operation in
Afghanistan and was promptly bludgeoned, had his throat slit from ear to
ear, and was shot in the back of the head by his terrorist captors.
International human rights organizations were united in one voice
expressing their outrage at this flagrant violation of the Geneva
Conventions on the treatment of prisoners of war. Oh, wait, did I
accidentally say "expressed outrage?" No, I meant to say
"expressed serious concern." No, that is not right either.
Perhaps a better term would be "noticed that it happened."
Actually, that is incorrect as well. The reality of the matter is
that the only thing the international human rights community has been
united in expressing about the wonton slaughter and torture of not just
American POW's, but civilian reporters, contractors, school children and
pretty much anyone else who has the misfortune of being in their general
vicinity, has been nothing.
So it must be just fine that our enemies' preferred method of determent
for their prisoners is to chain them to a concrete floor until they can
get around to beheading them on video tape. The International Red
Cross must be aware of some obscure international protocol that makes it
acceptable for Daniel Pearle to be murdered because he was Jewish, or
nuanced caveat of a custom that calls for kidnapped civilian prisoners to
have photos of their decapitated heads perched atop their dead bodies
broadcast on Al Jazeera, as was done to Paul Johnson.
In the eyes of human rights groups none of these actions sink to the
depths of depravity of the United States leaving the lights on when
illegal combatant terrorists are trying to sleep. Maybe it would be
better if we followed the enlightened and acceptable example of our
enemies and balanced our captives' severed heads along the fence of the
White House. At least then they would have been spared the inhuman
tortures of feeling bored, not having adequate reading material, listening
to loud music, and talking to women wearing tight t-shirts.
This blatant duplicity is a not a symptom of any actual affinity for the
beliefs or actions of international terrorists on the part of leftists.
Remember, most terrorists want to kill not just Americans, but
homosexuals, atheists, and feminists as well. So, there is no way
the left would actually support groups who hate so many of their core
constituencies. The current leftist human rights groups' current
concern for the health and safety of terrorist captives during the War on
Terror is nothing but an intellectually dishonest attempt to co-opt the
cause of terrorist detainees and warp it into yet another front in the
left's War on America.
Most liberal international groups could care less for the alleged plight
of terrorists being held by the American military. If the United
States was not involved in this matter, then the international community
would pay no more attention to the conditions of America's detainees than
they do the 300,000 dead Christians in the Darfur region of the Sudan, or
the rights of hundreds of slaughtered civilians who died at the hands of
the very terrorists the left is now trying to protect.
As usual, liberals are only involved in this issue because they sense the
opportunity to further their own goals and agenda from within it.
And that goal is to force the United States to become a European style
Socialistic welfare state.
In order to reach this end, the left must force several changes not just
in the behavior and beliefs of the American government, but its citizens
as well. Some of the traits that must be eliminated are national
pride, self reliance, moral clarity, and a sense of individualism.
If the left can succeed in purging these traits from the character of
America and her people, then they will be no different from the
phlegmatic, corrupt, and weak European nations they so envy.
In the opinion of the left, the best way to do this is to confront the
United States on every front, criticize its every failure, ridicule it
every victory and question its every motivation. It might be the
conditions of terrorist detainees today, but it will be the "plight
of the dolphins", or global warming on another. The actual
cause does not matter, so long as they are able to obstruct the United
States from doing what is right.
For decades during the Cold War, liberals aligned themselves with the
Communist Bloc. You will notice that there was never a line forming
of these leftists to leave the Free World and find greener pastures on the
plains of Siberia. However, that did not stop them from criticizing
every effort made by the United States and praising every abuse of the
Soviets. Today, Communism is nothing but a pipe dream even to its
most ardent adherents, but the left has still not stopped complaining.
Now they are supporting the cause of international terrorists, and yet
once again, you do not see America's mosques filling up with the ranks of
the left's former atheists, converted homosexuals, and reformed feminists
who now realize there is nothing better in life than never showing your
face in public and walking three feet behind your husband. It is not
that liberals are necessarily hypocrites, but that they see themselves as
part of a larger War on America in which the War on Terror is!
just a small part. And, just as in any war, conflict
sometimes makes strange bedfellows, and the enemy of your enemy becomes
your friend.
The problem for the left is that they have never thought their cause out
to the end and considered the consequences if they actually succeed in
their goals. If the left can one day turn America into a timid
giant, who would be left to defend them from the all those whose
"rights" they fought to protect?
© Justin Darr 2005
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