I repeat here a comment I received from some left-winger a while back. It was in response to something I wrote. I don't recall what I wrote, exactly. Frankly, it could've been just about anything I've written in the last two years. At any rate, this is what the lefty had to say to me:

You sound bitter, but more importantly, you sound unwilling to listen to an opinion other than one in agreeance with yours. You also seem eager to use terms like "leftist" and "peace" in a derogatory manner.

As to whether I'm "bitter", I'm not sure how "bitter" differs from "angry". There's no doubt I'm angry, and I'd like to know what lifeless shell isn't angry these days. I live in a country that spent the middle of the 20th century driving fascists from Western Europe and Asia and the last half of it keeping the Communists out of Western Europe and Korea, the country that, more than any other, drove the Soviet Union into a financial bankruptcy to match its ideological bankruptcy, and has been a beacon of hope to millions around the world for much of its 230 year history.

Our fathers and brothers and sons have fought and bled and died on foreign soil around the world so that others, people of other races, creeds and religions, might live lives of freedom and prosperity. Hundreds of thousands of Americans are in graves, in wheelchairs, on prosthetic limbs and on life support in order that the people of this place or that place might be free of fascism, Communism or Islamism or some other oppressive nutbag-ism that would tell those people who they are to be and what they may say, and what they are to think. For all its flaws, this country is a freakin' MIRACLE, and I want you to freakin' ACKNOWLEDGE IT.

This country spent the better part of the last century standing up against real fascism and the guys with the real gulags. If you don't know what a "real gulag" is, go read about the fun things that happened in Soviet Russia under Lenin and Stalin. If you want to understand real fascism, go study all those lovely projects they came up with in Nazi Germany. These were really bad places controlled by really bad people. In the fascist version of "suppression of speech," the speakers themselves disappeared, not just their ratings and quarterly sales figures. The real fascists did real torture. "Real torture" is where they do really sweet things like pull out your fingernails with pliers and smash your toes with hammers, nice things like that. This nation has given much to the effort to oppose these things, and for very good reasons.

My lefty friend commented that I tend to use the terms "leftist" and "peace" in a negative way. I certainly hope so. I use these terms in the most negative way possible, consistent with the full measure of derision that they deserve. Leftists, and by this term I mean true leftists, are responsible for the deaths of over 100 million people in this century alone. Hundreds of millions more have been forced to live in a slave-like existence that the left has wrought on Earth. Whatever there may be to commend equality, I submit that this is a pretty heavy weight on the "negative" side of the scale. And yes, I know there are those that claim to be "warm fuzzy" leftists--all the equality, none of the firing squads. Problem is, they've had their chance to distance themselves from the hard-edged communists for most of the last century, and most chose not to do so. Tell me who your friends are, and I know who you are.

For at least the last 40 years, the principle of "peace" has been very selectively applied by the "peace" movement. With respect to the term "peace," it is now well beyond reasonable dispute that the easiest way to identify the KGB front organization in your town in the 1980s was to find the largest "grassroots community" group incorporating the word "peace" in its name. That was almost guaranteed to be a Soviet-backed group. We suspected it at the time, and now we have the proof.

What kind of nonsense is it to say you're consistently "pro-peace" or "anti-war?" That's like being "anti-fire." In order to be 100% pro-peace above everything else, one would have to be willing to accept a lot of unpleasant things in one's perfectly "peaceful" world, including the continuation of black slavery in the American South, the complete extermination of European Jews, a unified Korea under the leadership of Kim Jong-Il and a Kuwait dominated by Saddam Hussein, as a few examples. We didn't go to war in Rwanda. That worked out well. Happy now? Point is, like it or not, war often does solve things. True, sometimes war is meaningless. But often, and particularly when the U.S. is involved, war has a purpose, and while ugly and terrible in its execution, is the right thing to do. Anyone who is unwilling, or unable, to accept this is simply a moron.

So yes, I am ANGRY. I'm ANGRY because so many people today claim to not be able to see the difference between Adolf Hitler and George Bush. I'm ANGRY because so many people claim to not be able to see the difference between a Soviet Gulag and an American military prison that does unspeakably brutal things like putting panties on a man's head. I'm ANGRY because so many people claim to see moral equivalence between a thug like Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi, who intentionally murdered Iraqi civilians by the dozen, and George Washington. I'm ANGRY because the people who claim to see the world this way are in any way taken seriously.

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