“Rabid“?

That was unnecessary.

A healthy badger is far more industrious.

(Neil Clark looks like a man who has tipped his nozzle over too many lagers and limes. And likely thinks Lenin was a peachy progressive instead of a red-spattered psychopath.)

Before you rush to condemn Iraqis who feel ill disposed towards the interpreters, ask yourself a simple question: how would you view fellow Britons who worked for the forces of a foreign occupier, if Britain were ever invaded? History tells us that down through history, Quislings have – surprise, surprise – not been well received, and the Iraqi people’s animosity towards those who collaborated with US and British forces is only to be expected.

That of course is exactly what’s happening in Britain, but the quislings are the government and leftists such as this writer and the rest of the Guardian. The quislings are letting the invaders in, subsidizing them, handing them political power, and persecuting anyone who complains. The difference of course is that the invaders are poor and non-Western, so, without usually admitting that that is the reason, the quislings like this writer insist that it does not therefore count as invasion and conquest but is actually a deserved and beneficial medicine that Britain needs for being so rich and powerful and white.

Sure. Until tomorrow.

Professor Blather on August 10, 2007 at 4:51 PM

Surprise. Then I see it all over again

It’s unfortunate that tar and feathering has gone out of style. At some point ordinary people are going to have to start standing against this garbage if their societies are to be saved.

“I am pleased that Britain and the US have had a major setback in Iraq”

There you have. The truth of liberalism. Out there for everyone to see.

I love how you can actually almost hear the British accent even in the comments.

We should get some of that around here – class the joint up a bit. Those cucumber sandwiches sound good, too.

what can you say?

Nothing.

In fact, I’m starting to wonder if we shouldn’t all just stop talking, and instead – just make sure that the general public knows what the Left is saying.

Their own words and actions condemn them a thousand times more than anything we could say or do.

About the only thing worth saying at times like this – and this stuff seems to be coming from the Left with increasing frequency lately – is simply this: we will remember.

What they did and said during this time will be remembered.

It’s funny that somebody else already mentioned Chamberlain, because he proves the point. By his own actions, he became a single-word symbol for unthinking, knee-jerk pacifism that led to unimaginable suffering.

He’s short-hand for why we loathe the left much of the time.

And when I read stuff like this, my first thought is always: is this the next Chamberlain? Will *this* be the guy that becomes a single-word nounified object of ridicule to future generations?

Chamberlain can rest easy, because I’m pretty sure we’ll stop using his name in the near future – because somebody better will come along. Or is already here.

For that matter, I suspect our generation will stop using Hitler so much, too … because we’ll be dealing with our own version. With nuclear weapons. Too bad “Imadinnerjacket” is so much harder to spell than Hitler. Maybe future bloggers won’t deal with Godwin’s Law, since “Imadoggonenutjob” is just too hard to type.

Maybe at the very bottom of it all, the difference between liberals and conservatives is that conservatives respect history and try not to repeat its mistakes – and liberals don’t even know the history.

The most disgusting thing I’ve ever read.

Emilie H. on August 10, 2007 at 4:38 PM

Sure. Until tomorrow.

Never a good idea to match hate with hate.

What clever distortions he uses. He cunningly distorts the fact that the Baathist insurgents, a small minority of the population, who would kill Iraq translators to the false proposition that they represent the majority of the Iraqi population. That is like saying the Mafia speaks for the citizens of Sicily. And of course, the Left has used this tactic in Vietnam, where they said the Viet Cong were the voice of the people, leaving out the part where the Viet Cong were assassinating villagers to terrorize them into submission.

Lefties like Neil Clark want to take Iraq back to tyranny and plunge Iraq back into a living hell.

After I reported that an Iraqi man had told me al Qaeda bakes children
to serve to their families, I told Talal there was a great uproar over
that report. Talal said that he had heard only that al Qaeda had baked
a child’s head, and that he remembered it having been in a news
report. He knows well what Iraq is up against. His courage is
unfathomable.

According to the website of the Committee to Protect Journalists:

The Associated Press reported that Mohammed’s friend, who wished to remain anonymous, provided the journalist’s family with the information after his release. He said they had been taken to a farm and kept apart, but heard the gunmen interrogating and beating Mohammed in an adjacent room, according to the AP. The reasons behind Mohammed’s abduction remained unclear, the AP said. The news organization said it did not release information of the kidnapping earlier because “it had been in touch with U.S. military authorities in the region in the hope of finding Mohammed.”

Hening on August 10, 2007 at 3:28 PM

They’ve had more practice. Give the US Left time. They’ll catch up.

Mr. Clark supports the insurgents yet he is unwilling to detonate himself or leave his comfortable life to fight alongside them.

Neil Clark has a rep if you do a run down of his articles of being an anti-western type no matter the subject.