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October 02, 2005

Anti-war protests? Hardly.

Christopher Hitchens is one of the few mainstream writers on the left with any integrity. He refuses to blindly follow the crowd which seems to hate President Bush so much that they will embrace absolutely any person or movement that lashes out against him. He has an excellent piece at Slate about the so-called "peace" protests in DC last week. Here is an excerpt, but the entire article is well worth reading:

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. And this in a week when Afghans went back to the polls, and when Iraqis were preparing to do so, under a hail of fire from those who blow up mosques and U.N. buildings, behead aid workers and journalists, proclaim fatwahs against the wrong kind of Muslim, and utter hysterical diatribes against Jews and Hindus.

Posted by TJ at October 2, 2005 06:51 PM

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