In Bed with the Enemy

There's an important piece at the The American Thinker today written by Todd Witengier titled, Strange Bedfellows. You can probably guess what the article is about because the problem is ever more glaring as each day passes. Here's a portion of the piece but you will want to read the whole thing:

Liberals will sleep with anybody. No, this isn’t just another off-color reference to our esteemed former President Clinton. Instead, I’m referring to political alliances. More specifically, I’m talking about those on the left who would trade in common sense for political opportunism, even at their own peril. In their determined effort to decry the Bush administration and take the offensive against all things conservative, they have ignored the advertised threat to their own lifestyle and safety.

How? Well, they work against the administration’s efforts against terrorism; they disavow the benefits of a strong American military presence in the Middle East during a time of war and overt hostilities toward the U.S. and our allies; they publicize and, thereby, thwart defensive investigative techniques employed by the U.S. government to uncover threats to national security. And whom do these actions benefit? The U.S. public? Our allies? Well, besides themselves, these actions can only benefit Muslim extremists with the stated goal to destroy western values and civilization. Well done, lefties. Well done.

If pictures speak a thousand words, then this collage speaks volumes. Through pictures alone it illustrates the mindset of extremists bent on destroying all those who do not subscribe to their brand of religious fanaticism. The futility of the newly reborn 70’s-era activism is clearly demonstrated when you juxtapose the useful idiot, otherwise known as Cindy Sheehan, against the backdrop of mentally- and culturally-stunted Muslim extremists. One group is fueled by naïveté, self-loathing, and partisanship; the other by blind hatred, intolerance, and violence.

Unfortunately for the former, achieving peace by holding hands and singing Kumbaya has been historically unattainable. This is especially true in situations where diplomacy breaks down. With modern civilized nations having legitimate governments, diplomacy can be an effective tool for managing international relations. When dealing with terror regimes whose collective mindset is stalled in 7th-century thinking, however, hopes of diplomatically achieving peace are pure fantasy.

Ironically, the naïve, peace-loving leftists—champions of anti-hate speech legislation in the U.S.—give a hall pass to the most prolific and vitriolic purveyors of hate today (both in speech and action): Muslim extremists. Why is that? The answer is unfathomable, yet at the same time remarkably simple.

In the liberal “mind,” conservatives are the greatest villains known to man; an even greater threat than are Muslim terrorists. Amazingly, liberals marginalize the threat of terrorism and terror regimes, even when such regimes are publicly preaching hate and spreading contempt for western values to the world media.

It's just amazing that a once great and dominant political party could have sped so abruptly to the extreme left. The leftist components were there all along, but now they control the current incarnation of the democrat party and as such will probably self-destruct.

That would be fine, but there's every probability they will institute a "scorched earth policy" when they don't get their way and in so doing wreak untold damage. They're already doing so with leftist organizations like the ACLU and MoveOn.Org just to name two.

Our battle is on many different fronts in this international war against Islamofascism, but the political battle within our borders could be the most destructive and the most difficult to fight.