WHY THE LEFT LOVES OSAMA
Daniel Pipes fires a devastating political shot against the Left. Moderate lefties should read it before making your signs for the next Communist-sponsored protest march. Hint: Tone it down people! Here's some of his reasoning, but you have to read the whole thing:
Right after the 9/11 attack, German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen called it "the greatest work of art for the whole cosmos." Eric Foner, an ornament of Columbia University's Marxist firmament, trivialized it by announcing himself unsure "which is more frightening: the horror that engulfed New York City or the apocalyptic rhetoric emanating daily from the White House." Norman Mailer called the suicide hijackers "brilliant."
More recently, it appears that none of the millions of antiwar demonstrators have a bad word to say about Saddam Hussein nor an iota of sympathy for those oppressed, tortured and murdered by his regime. Instead, they vent fury against the American president and British prime minister.
...The Left theorizes that the United States oppresses poor countries; thus Noam Chomsky's formulation that America is a "leading terrorist state."
...Then came 9/11, which Marxists interpreted as the Third World (finally!) striking back at its American oppressor. In the Left's imagination, Harris explains, this attack was nothing less than "world-historical in its significance: the dawn of a new revolutionary era."
...This admiring spirit explains the Left's nonchalant response to 9/11. Sure, it rued the loss of life, but not too much. Dario Fo, the Italian Marxist who won the 1997 Nobel Prize for literature, explains: "The great [Wall Street] speculators wallow in an economy that every year kills tens of millions of people with poverty, so what is 20,000 dead in New York?"
The same goes for Saddam Hussein, whose gruesome qualities matter less to the Left than the fact of his confronting and defying the United States. In its view, anyone who does that can't be too bad
We now have Rep Marcy Kaptur (D-Ohio) talking excitedly about the revolution and comparing Osama to our founding fathers, and we have other leftists serving as "human shields," offering their lives to Arafat and Saddam as quasi-religious sacrifices for their cause. You don't see any leftists actually offering their lives to Osama, thankfully, but that may come soon if al Qaeda were to survive and recruit from the anarchist protesters. Passive human shields now could easily become active human bombs later (once all the Palestinian children are dead). It's the same spirit of fighting against the "oppressors." Their cause is not true peace or they wouldn't risk their lives to support terrorists like Arafat, and mass Muslim murderers like Saddam, let alone shield them in a battle. That takes true love. Too bad it's love for people who terrorize and murder civilians.