This is a follow-up to my earlier post, “the far left’s new obsession: Afghanistan.” American Power’s Donald Douglas was kind enough to link to my article. He wrote about the growing opposition to the Iraq War among leftist activists earlier this month as well – be sure to read it.
In his post of today, Donald quotes Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. Back when the Iraq War was the number one opportunity to surrender for liberals, she said that “our bill calls for the redeployment of U.S. troops out of Iraq so that we can focus more fully on the real war on terror, which is in Afghanistan.”
Perhaps the above is the real scandal here. It shows how incredibly hypocritical liberals were and are when it comes to war. They may pretend they support defensive wars, but in actuality they do not. They are not pacifists as such, they only seem to believe that the West can never attack / strike back at its enemies.
And that’s precisely why we can’t take any of their concerns about the war in Afghanistan – whether they are reasonable or not – serious.
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