Mobs of left-wing protesters demonstrate their own inanity
SALT LAKE CITY—America’s sanctimonious Liberal-Left tends to get irate when reminded of the misdeeds of Democratic presidents while it hypocritically gnaws away at President George W. Bush’s foreign initiatives.
But then, that’s the case with the Lib-Left in Canada, too—and throughout the world in general.
As I’ve said so often, hypocrisy is built in the Lib-Left’s genetic makeup.
The huge demonstrations of last weekend against Bush’s liberation of Iraq from the clutches of vile dictator Saddam Hussein didn’t even make for good theatre, even if a bunch of so-called Hollywood stars were prominent.
Compare the mass of uncouth demonstrators and their cunning orchestrators to the steadfastness of Bush and the U.S. military and it really isn’t hard to distinguish which side rational people should be on.
I was actually spending a day with some rather fine Republican friends here as the demonstrations got under way, and, not that we spent too much time viewing the newscasts of this rabble in the streets, but we noted the demonstrators actually showed another faultline in the erratic philosophies of the Lib-Left and the oddball fringe of the Democratic Party.
While Bush and his team got rid of Saddam Hussein and have brought democracy to Iraq, another madman stalks the stage in the Middle East.
Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is determined to get his hands on nuclear weapons.
Coincidentally, Ahmadinejad’s ascent to power can theoretically be traced back directly to U.S. President Jimmy Carter’s betrayal of the Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi in 1979.
Carter, president from 1977-81, deserted the Shah as the radical forces of the religious maniac Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini moved to overthrow the pro-western leader.
From the early 1960s on, the Shah had put into place a number of economic and social reforms—later known as the White Revolution—which ranged from giving women unequalled rights in a Muslim country to redistributing land from wealthy owners to the peasants who worked on that land.
The elegant Pahlavi was a shining oracle in the region.
Sadly, under the fanatical onslaught against the Shah, Carter quavered in continuing longtime American support, and Pahlavi had to flee his country.
The new government of Khomeini was virulently anti-American—as is Ahmadinejad’s current regime—and soon after seizing power, his thugs invaded the American Embassy in Tehran and took the staff hostage.
Meanwhile, Iranian women were being brutalized and hundreds of thousands of decent Iranian men and women were slaughtered.
Khomeini’s rule was very similar to that of Saddam, though the Iraqi dictator’s regime lacked the religious fervour of the Iran cabal.
Khomeini’s thugs used violence against anyone perceived to be their enemy—meaning decent, reform-minded Iranians—just as Saddam did against his opponents.
If Carter had possessed the guts of Bush, Iran would be a modern democratic country today and pose no threat to the western democracies—or to Israel.
As an aside, it’s significant that at just about the very moment President Ronald Reagan was sworn into office, the Iranians freed the American hostages.
They knew there would be no messing with the new right-wing president.
Reagan would have moved with all the military might the U.S. had to free the hostages and topple Khomeini’s regime.
The president knew, as Sir Winston Churchill did long before, when you are dealing with gangster states, kind words and appeasement do not work.
Today there can hardly be a rational person who does not realize Ahmadinejad must be stopped before he builds a nuclear arsenal, for, as every rational person knows, this irrational and ruthless man will use his nuclear weapons.
Just as Saddam would have used his weapons of mass destruction had Bush not halted him in his tracks.
It surely makes one shudder to ponder what would have happened had Democrats Al Gore or John Kerry won the past two presidential elections rather than Bush.
Saddam would still be in power—with $60-a-barrel oil, no less—and we’d have two madmen with their hands on enormous destructive power.
Fortunately, the power of the ballot box exceeded that of the street mobs we witnessed a week ago.
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