My wife and I both read the story in the Wall Street Journal’s OpinionJournal last Wednesday night and shook our heads back and forth in a mixture of sadness and amazement—but resolving into a sense of confirmation that we’re on the right side, and an affirmation that we understand the other side quite well. One of our discussion forum members, FrumFan, posted about it in our discussion forums.
It’s truly amazing and once again reminds me of a post I made some time ago—but first here’s NewsMax.com’s take on it:
Saturday, March 5, 2005 6:54 a.m. EST
Clintonista Admits Dems Rooting for TerroristsA senior Clinton administration national security official offered a stunning admission this week, confessing during a national television interview that Democrats are secretly rooting for the Bush administration’s war on terrorism to fail.
In comments largely overlooked by the mainstream press, former Clinton National Security Council member Nancy Soderberg discussed the recent outbreak of democracy in the Middle East with “Daily Show” host Jon Stewart.
“As a Democrat, you don’t want anything nice to happen to the Republicans, and you don’t want them to have progress,” Soderberg observed, before quickly adding, “But as an American, you hope good things would happen.”
However, Soderberg quickly undermined her own caveat, noting, “It’s scary for Democrats, I have to say.”After noting that the U.S.‘s remarkable foreign policy success followed the toppling of one of the three members of the axis of evil, Soderberg suggested again that the more success America has in defeating global terrorism, the worse it is for her party.
“Well, there’s still Iran and North Korea, don’t forget. There’s still hope for the rest of us. … There’s always hope that this might not work.”
It’s so revealing of the liberals and how they actually think, but of course the words were said so casually and automatically and matter-of-factly, that they could easily have been missed. That liberal penchant for speaking as if everybody in the room—or TV viewing audience—agrees with them is one of the most arrogant aspects about liberals. Even after being defeated in an election, they still seem to think everyone’s on their side.
Once again I’ll bring this old post up—it’s something that caught my eye a long time ago and it literally haunts me. The sentiments conveyed here and on the Jon Stewart show too, exemplify why people turned against the liberals in the U.S. and continue to do so.
I wrote about it in a short column I wrote several months ago—based on one of the most startling things I’ve read because it was written by a journalist —a liberal, clearly, in a moment of honesty.
Here’s a snippet from my own article:
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown is a columnist at the London Evening Standard. In light of the handover of sovereignty to Iraq on June 28 2004 she wrote her latest piece, a gem entitled ‘My shame at savoring American failure in Iraq’, and it includes these words (my bolding):
“A dogged campaigner against the blighted war in Iraq, I am now wrestling with the demons of callous triumphalism. The anti-war protestors have been proved horribly right. The allies who marched with the US into this ugly adventure should feel mortified. It is a fearful and turbulent country the new Western Imperialists hand over to the Iraqis. The past months have been challenging for us in the anti-war camp. I am ashamed to admit that there have been times when I wanted more chaos, more shocks, more disorder to teach our side a lesson. On Monday I found myself again hoping that this handover proves a failure because it has been orchestrated by the Americans. The decent people of Iraq need optimism now, not my distasteful ill-wishes for the only hope they have for a future.”
I believe Alibhai-Brown exposes a broad cross-section of the western media and many Liberal-Left politicians and supporters, but I don’t think those people realize the far-reaching implications of their quest for American failure. On some level, I feel Alibhai-Brown speaks for many, and so for bluntly avoiding the mendacity of the rest I’ll give her credit. […]
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