Senator Rick Santorum who unfortunately faces an uphill battle in his bid for another term, neatly framed the dilemma we face as a nation on a TV news program this morning. To paraphrase, he pointed out that the far left contingent of the Democrat Party refuses to acknowledge, much less act upon the threat we face from radical Islam.
That’s why the words of John Kerry besmirching the U.S. military are humorous to the leftist fringe, but highly offensive to practically everyone else. The left’s unassailable faith in the doctrine of moral equivalence coupled with arrogance and disdain for those who do not agree with them provides the foundation to view President Bush and the U.S. military as the aggressors on the world stage.
Seymour Hersh, who writes for the The New Yorker magazine and who has devoted his career to demonizing the U.S. military, told an audience at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, that “There has never been an American army as violent and murderous as the one in Iraq.â€Â But while the left is currently cheering Hersh’s remarks, it should be noted that Hersh has a long history of distorting the truth to support his own delusional beliefs. The Seymour Hersh who told McGill students that although “there are 816 days left in the reign of King George II of America, when we wake up tomorrow morning, there will be one less day†is the same Seymour Hersh who once dismissed JFK as “the most corrupt President in American history.”
Hersh is a master at portraying American leaders and the military as monstrous while excusing barbarous attacks on Americans as justified, but he is not alone in his efforts to undermine America.