Richard Berstein of the New York Times (December 11, 2005) wrote that “there has always been a segment of public opinion in Europe, most notably on the intellectual left in Britain, that has been angrier at the United States over the years than at U.S. enemies, whether the Sandinistas in Nicaragua or Al Qaida’s followers in Iraq who beheaded kidnapping victims on videotape.”

Does that seem strange to you?  Probably not as strange as the opposition of Americans to our fighting enemies of the state.

One of the loudest critics of America is British playwright Harold Pinter who blames the United States for lying to justify the war in Iraq.  He terms American action as “bandit acts” and “criminal outrage”.  (He apparently forgets that it was the United States that saved Europe from devastation…twice!)

Pinter was particularly vocal in his condemnation of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in her assertions that the United States is not torturing terrorist prisoners.  Of course, as is the case with the left in general, Pinter offers no solutions to the problem of islamofascism.  As Bernstein noted in his analysis, “Pinter’s harsh critique offered no practical suggestions about how to balance civil rights and civil protection in a world that has experienced the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon and in Bali, Indonesia, London, Madrid, and Amman, Jordan.”

Bernstein is correct in asserting that this is a “new kind of war”.  The left doesn’t get it.  In fact, many on the left have supported terror themselves…terror designed to overthrow governments that they view to be “bad”.  Just look at Central and South America.  Who was it in America that was supporting the communist governments or the communist anti-government forces?  Who supported North Vietnam?  Who continues to support the wrong side in every war or conflict affecting the world today? 

It is becoming clearer day by day.  The left takes its stance in support of terrorists who promote communism, socialism, and islamofascism because their membership does not see the takeover of the world by the bad guys as devastation.  Somehow, they have come to see America as the ones creating devastation while the terrorists bring only what is good for the world and its people. 

The left continues to try to force America to fight the war against islamofascists as if the enemy were soldiers in uniform; covered by the Geneva Conventions and protected by international human rights treaties.  At first I thought that this was one of some ethical standards that I didn’t grasp.  Not true.  The outcry by the “intellectual left” is nothing but another attempt to turn us from our course, to discredit our cause, to dissolve our resolve, and to make us appear to be the bad guys.  There can be only one reason for that; to see the enemy win…and to inflict so much damage on democracy that communism, socialism, and/or fascism, have a chance to take significant hold once again in the world.  Senators Kerry, Kennedy, Representative Pelosi, and Britain’s Mr. Pinter are supporting the cause against democracy and against freedom.  That is just the short list.

To all of them, I can only offer a sarcastic “thanks for your help”. We’ll have to do it without you.  That should make it easier for the rest of us.