Reading the Words

With the Left desperately trying to pretend that they are a political ideology actually worthy of some respect, I think that the efforts of Mr. de Havilland and Mr. Shirazi cannot be spread out enough. There are too many people who forget that just a few years ago, the Left was doing anything and everything in it's power to prevent American success in the War on Terror. Mr. Shirazi has helpfully dug up some of the arguments the Left presented. Does anyone remember the "Afgan Pipeline" argument that the Leftists tried to put forward?

The antiwar press in Britain, however, was sane and rational when compared with the Asia Times, which describes itself as “a quality Internet-only publication” that looks at issues “from an Asian perspective”. Many of its articles, nonetheless, are written by authors whose names have a decidedly un-Asian ring to them, such as Pepe Escobar, a tawdry hack who styles himself as a “roving” international correspondent. In addition to flirting with 9-11 conspiracy stories, Escobar had no doubt whatever that the real objective of the military campaign in Afghanistan was to enable the construction of an oil pipeline from central Asia to the coast of Pakistan, thereby giving the US access to a vital non-OPEC oil source. Three years later the pipeline was triumphantly unveiled: unfortunately for “Pipeline Pepe” its route does not pass anywhere near Afghan territory, as indicated by the map helpfully printed in his article.

And yet, the Left will not admit that they were wrong, nor will they abandon the type of thinking that allowed them to be suckered into believing the pipeline story. Because at the root of their thinking, the USA is evil and any story that reinforces their point of view, no matter how preposterous, is held up as an example of just how bad they think the USA is.

Now the Left is trying to pretend that they never got suckered by that story, or any of the other stories that vindicated their drug-addled worldview. They're trying to pretend that they wanted the USA to win all along, and we need to hold up their words and rub their damn noses in it.