Tuesday, November 18, 2003
Here's who the folks marching in Britain are marching with and for.
Amir Taheri on George W. Bush & Britain on National Review Online
When I called the coalition to ask whether the idea was to stop all wars, a spokeswoman assured me that this was not the case.
She referred me to the first article of the coalition's charter that states: "The aim of the coalition is simple: to stop the war currently declared by the United States and its allies against 'terrorism.'"
"We really want to stop Bush and Blair from going around killing babies," she said. "Our objective is to force the U.S. out of Iraq and Afghanistan."
But what if a U.S. withdrawal means the return of the Taliban and Saddam Hussein?
"Anything would be better than American Imperialist rule," she snapped back.
Who are these nostalgics of the Taliban and Saddam Hussein?[...]
Taheri goes on to detail some of the oddball alliances the War Against Freedom has wrought, such as that of Radical Islamists and unrepentant Stalinists. And so it goes in this rapidly re-aligning left/right world.
We live in a time of great flux. The end of the Cold War has opened a vacuum strange bedfellows are rushing to fill. And the Useful Idiots are still on the march, serving as filler...
