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May 23, 2006
Mort Kondracke: BDS Threatens Our National Survival
Forget about bird flu — if there's a disease that poses a serious threat to America, it's Bush Derangement Syndrome, as Mort Kondracke makes clear in a column that pleads for liberals to put our national interest ahead of their petty resentment of the President.
Kondracke's cry that Bush-hatred is "threatening our national survival" does not come from a conservative. He stakes out the middle ground between the right (Fred Barnes, Charles Krauthammer) and the left (NPR's Mara Liasson and Juan Williams) on the discussion panel on Fox New's "Special Report with Brit Hume," and usually comes off sounding like a pre-McGovern Democrat.
He blames Bush-hatred for government bureaucrats leaking critical secrets that undermine our ability to fight Islamic terrorists, as well as the appalling irresponsibility of demagogues like Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and liberal media outlets like Newsweek, both of which have hyped the NSA's use of anonymous call logs to analyze terrorist threats into a phony civil liberties crisis — much to our country's strategic disadvantage.
The result is a climate in which treason is regarded as heroic, and commonsense antiterrorism measures are treated as crimes. As Kondracke notes:
Would newspapers in the midst of World War II have printed the fact that the United States had broken German and Japanese codes, enabling the enemy to secure its communications? Or revealed how and where Nazi spies were being interrogated? Nowadays, newspapers win Pulitzer Prizes for such disclosures. ...
The phone companies that are cooperating with the government ought to be congratulated for participating in the war on terrorism — as they would have been during WWII. Instead, they are being hauled before the Senate Judiciary Committee as though they were criminals. And trial lawyers are circling like vultures to make them pay zillions for alleged privacy violations.
His main point is becoming increasingly obvious, and not only to conservatives:
Democrats want to destroy Bush so badly that they are willing to undercut national security.
Remember this when the next terror attack comes, because the media sure isn't going to remind you why it was that the intelligence community was not able to connect the dots.
Kondracke quotes Princeton University professor Bernard Lewis, one of our foremost scholars of Islam, as saying that Osama bin Laden and his kind regard America as "an effete, degenerate, pampered enemy incapable of real resistance." It's not hard to see how this perception would evolve during the Clinton Administration.
Liberals enjoy complaining that Bush is making a bad impression on the rest of the world. They ought to spare a little thought for the impression they are making themselves, particularly on those who want to destroy us.
Posted by Van Helsing at May 23, 2006 1:32 PM
Comments
At the rate things are going, we may soon find ourselves likeSweden: Dying of Terminal Moonbattery
These brave Leftists or “anti-Fascists” do, for some curious reason, seem to behave pretty much like, well, Fascists, a bit like the Brown Shirts in the 1930s, physically assaulting political opponents to silence them. In another incident in Stockholm, members of the Sweden Democrats handing out leaflets for the party were attacked by a group of extreme Leftists, who started beating and kicking them. One of them got tear gas sprayed in his face. According to Oscar Sjöstedt from the Sweden Democrats in Stockholm, this was the third tear gas attack against them in a few months.
While critics of immigration are demonized in Sweden, Communists are much more accepted. The Left Party is a support party for the current Swedish Social Democratic government, whose party does not hold a majority in parliament by itself. Leader of the Left Party, Lars Ohly, has called himself a Communist after he was elected party leader. In 1999, a decade after the fall of the Berlin Wall, he stated that: “I stand for a modern Leninism based on class struggle.” ... In Sweden, it is OK to openly support an ideology that killed 100 million people during the 20th century and enslaved millions more, but “undemocratic” to call for limitations in Muslim immigration.
Posted by: V the K at May 23, 2006 2:41 PM
The left doesn't "hate" Bush. They "love" America. It's just hard to take up for America without being critical of Bush's efforts to tear the country down and throw our freedoms away for the sake of "national security."
Odd that national security now involves who I call to order a pizza from (the calls are tracked) and that reporters are being spied on (Brian Ross). And why spy on Ross? All he was doing was exposing the money links between the executive director of the CIA and a lobbyist in the Hookergate scandal.
Posted by: Ronald Reagan at May 23, 2006 4:33 PM
My feet smell...
BLAME BUSH!
Oh, I feel so much better now!
Seriously, these people need to get a life. If W were responsible for even ten percent of the things they blame him for, he'd be masterminding an evil empire somewhere instead of sitting as President of the Untied States (and no, they wasn't a typo).
Posted by: The Random Yak at May 23, 2006 5:11 PM
The sad thing about the whole uproar over domestic spying(which I'm all for, by the way) is that people seems to forget that this isn't a new program. 60 minutes broke a story at the end of the Clinton administration about the same program, just as large in scope. Of course the MSM and the left(they go hand in hand anyway) act like this is all Bush's plan and it's never happened before. Anytime they talk about the "evil's" of Bush's supposed spying, do they ever mention the fact the Clinton administration did the same thing?
In fact, is anyone really naive enough to truly believe that this is a new program? Sure, with new technology they're able to moniter a larger network, which I am personally glad of. But does anyone really believe that every president since God knows when hasn't been doing the same thing? It's just that today's media is more than willing to compromise national security for the sake of a "story" because they know nothing will happen to them, and they will in fact be applauded for it.
I wonder, if it was a lefty in office, would they be applauded for breaking the story by the same people who support it now, or condemned?
Posted by: Combat Jump Star at May 23, 2006 11:17 PM
Valiant effort, but it will be to no avail. The left is so far gone, that nothing can bring them back from the world of hatred, illusion, and derangement in which they live.
Posted by: Denise at May 24, 2006 8:28 AM
I think that pretty much goes without saying most of the time Denise. Unfortunately, I'm sure that most of them realize that domestic spying has been going on for ages, and has really been going on at this level since the mid 90's, yet they just refuse to acknowldge it, or worse, they acknowledge it yet act like it wasn't as "wrong" then for one lame reason or another. Of course we all know the reason it wasn't as "wrong" is that it was one of their own doing it.
Posted by: Combat Jump Star at May 24, 2006 8:43 AM
I've always liked Mort, he is a breath of fresh air from the Dem side.
Posted by: MG3 at May 24, 2006 11:17 AM
