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]]> By: Gaius http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2006/09/21/is-there-an-echo-in-here/comment-page-1/#comment-21708 Gaius Fri, 22 Sep 2006 04:24:08 +0000 http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2006/09/21/is-there-an-echo-in-here/#comment-21708 Follow the link, read the comment section. When I say "the left" I am not trying to blanket any and all people who oppose the administration on a lot of things. Hell, I oppose Bush on immigration, big time. I use the term specifically for the "blame America first" crowd. Follow the link, read the comment section.

When I say “the left” I am not trying to blanket any and all people who oppose the administration on a lot of things. Hell, I oppose Bush on immigration, big time. I use the term specifically for the “blame America first” crowd.

]]> By: Bob http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2006/09/21/is-there-an-echo-in-here/comment-page-1/#comment-21705 Bob Fri, 22 Sep 2006 04:02:35 +0000 http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2006/09/21/is-there-an-echo-in-here/#comment-21705 Gaius – I don’t know who the “leftist” poster you quote is, and it’s hard even to get a sense for what they were trying to say from the snippet you present. But I take exception to the idea that “the left” is some monolithic entity that is unanimously hostile to either the U.S. or Israel, or that they are the dupes or the secret allies of people like Ahmedinejad. I think it’s safe to say that any Democrat you can think of (which doesn’t include, by the way, leftist extremists like Noam Chomsky) is safely on the same side of the disagreement with Iran as you and your conservative friends. Various people may advocate different strategies, like limited diplomatic engagement, Security Council resolutions, sanctions, etc., but “the left” is certainly not on the side of Ahmedinejad – neither wittingly nor unwittingly. I feel that there is a concerted effort on the part of “the right” to slander “the left” by equating opposition to the Iraq war – or to certain other controversial Bush administration policies – with de facto support for al Qaeda or the Iranian theocracy. It’s a rather dishonest approach that unfairly brands half of the country as traitors only to attempt to score cheap political points. It has much more to do with the typical Bush administration tactics of smearing and laying waste to anyone who dares to question their absolute power, than to any honest assessment of the facts about who liberals are and what they really stand for. Gaius – I don’t know who the “leftist” poster you quote is, and it’s hard even to get a sense for what they were trying to say from the snippet you present. But I take exception to the idea that “the left” is some monolithic entity that is unanimously hostile to either the U.S. or Israel, or that they are the dupes or the secret allies of people like Ahmedinejad. I think it’s safe to say that any Democrat you can think of (which doesn’t include, by the way, leftist extremists like Noam Chomsky) is safely on the same side of the disagreement with Iran as you and your conservative friends. Various people may advocate different strategies, like limited diplomatic engagement, Security Council resolutions, sanctions, etc., but “the left” is certainly not on the side of Ahmedinejad – neither wittingly nor unwittingly.

I feel that there is a concerted effort on the part of “the right” to slander “the left” by equating opposition to the Iraq war – or to certain other controversial Bush administration policies – with de facto support for al Qaeda or the Iranian theocracy. It’s a rather dishonest approach that unfairly brands half of the country as traitors only to attempt to score cheap political points. It has much more to do with the typical Bush administration tactics of smearing and laying waste to anyone who dares to question their absolute power, than to any honest assessment of the facts about who liberals are and what they really stand for.

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