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November 3, 2005

The Friends of Our Enemies

Ralph Peters has an excellent piece in today's New York Post explaining the seemingly incomprehensible phenomenon of liberal intellectuals actively siding with totalitarian zealots who would eagerly cut the throats of their children in their beds. It all boils down to the maxim "the enemy of my enemy is my friend":

Global intellectuals and Islamist terrorists share common enemies — the United States, Israel and the West in general. They're unified by a disdain for freedom, capitalism and democracy — especially the latter. Religious extremists and the international intelligentsia alike distrust the will of the people at the ballot box.

They also have in common the moral depravity that makes genocide possible.

Islamist fanatics are willing to kill millions to fortify and purify their religion — just as intellectuals excused Stalin's purges and Mao's mass slaughters in the name of building communist utopias.

Peters puts his finger on why Muslim terrorists — though evil, deranged, and despicable — are more worthy of respect than their pointy-headed apologists:

Islamist terrorists at least have the courage of their convictions. They'll sacrifice their lives for their perverted faith. Anti-American intellectuals wouldn't sacrifice a tall latte to save a continent from genocide.

Of course if the liberal media's efforts are successful, and al Qaeda takes control of Iraq and its resources, the nuclear attacks on Western cities that would eventually follow would kill sneering intellectuals just as dead as everyone else. But posturing moonbat chin-scratchers aren't capable of thinking matters through that far. As Peters aptly puts it, "The problem with intellectuals is that they don't really think."

Peters is entirely correct to suggest that "the global insurgency of anti-American intellectuals may be more pernicious even than al Qaeda." We defeated the Soviet Union, but the New York Times — which glorified Stalin while covering up his genocide — is still around, and still doing whatever it can to help those who would destroy our civilization. Peters sums up our struggle nicely:

We'll prevail against the terrorists. And after we've triumphed again, our domestic intellectuals and their foreign brethren will find new monsters to worship.

Hat tip: Byron

Posted by Van Helsing at November 3, 2005 9:37 PM

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Posted by: Anna at November 3, 2005 10:27 PM