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March 1, 2006
Laura Ingraham - Why the Left Supports a Fascist
That title is a little bit misleading. I don't think liberals go around saying "Cool! This guy is a total fascist! Let's support him!" It's just one of those things that happens by accident. As a country moves from dictatorship to democracy, bad things happen. That leads to articles like this and this about the failure of the Iraq war.
Laura Ingraham devoted a large portion of her radio show's first hour to this syndrome, and it got me thinking about how the debate over Iraq got to the point where liberals are able to assert that a country was better off with a murdering fascist in charge. I believe the problem is that you're not cats.
When cats hunt, we look around for a good pouncing spot and then sit there waiting for the prey to come to us. Humans are different: you go out looking for the prey, and then drag it back home after it's killed. This means you need less hunting territory than we do, but it also means you think you can beat your opponents on their own ground.
Because of this, conservatives have allowed the Left to choose the battleground in the debate over Iraq. It's not about delivering democracy, it's about preventing violence. From that perspective, the fascist government of Saddam Hussein is an obvious improvement on the coalition forces currently in charge. We never saw news stories about Saddam murdering people en masse, so all the violence we see now must be a result of taking him out of play. It even makes sense that a strong dictator keeps the people in line. Saddam always had the option of killing a hundred people for the criminal actions of a few or gassing whole villages to keep them docile.
It would be wrong to think that the staff of the Huffington Post is in favor of mass murder. The problem is that conservatives are allowing the Huffers to measure the success of the war in terms of the level of sectarian violence. What evidence do we have that the presence of American troops increases sectarian violence? Only that it didn't happen under Saddam. Well, folks, there are a lot of dead Shiites and Kurds who would disagree on that point.
Don't let them get away with it. If liberals cannot convincingly prove that they're as smart as cats, then it's your turn to choose the hunting ground.
Respectfully submitted,
Ferdinand T. Cat
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