The War Within the War

By Justin Darr

February 12, 2005

On March 5th, 2002, long before there was a Camp X-Ray, American Petty Officer Neil Roberts fell out of his helicopter while on an operation in Afghanistan and was promptly bludgeoned, had his throat slit from ear to ear, and was shot in the back of the head by his terrorist captors.  International human rights organizations were united in one voice expressing their outrage at this flagrant violation of the Geneva Conventions on the treatment of prisoners of war.  Oh, wait, did I accidentally say expressed outrage?  No, I meant to say expressed serious concern.  No, that is not right either.  Perhaps a better term would be noticed that it happened.  Actually, that is incorrect as well.  The reality of the matter is that the only thing the international human rights community has been united in expressing about the wonton slaughter and torture of not just American POWs, but civilian reporters, contractors, school children and pretty much anyone else who has the misfortune of being in their general vicinity, has been nothing.

So it must be just fine that our enemies preferred method of determent for their prisoners is to chain them to a concrete floor until they can get around to beheading them on video tape.  The International Red Cross must be aware of some obscure international protocol that makes it acceptable for Daniel Pearle to be murdered because he was Jewish, or nuanced caveat of a custom that calls for kidnapped civilian prisoners to have photos of their decapitated heads perched atop their dead bodies broadcast on Al Jazeera, as was done to Paul Johnson. 

In the eyes of human rights groups none of these actions sink to the depths of depravity of the United States leaving the lights on when illegal combatant terrorists are trying to sleep.  Maybe it would be better if we followed the enlightened and acceptable example of our enemies and balanced our captives severed heads along the fence of the White House.  At least then they would have been spared the inhuman tortures of feeling bored, not having adequate reading material, listening to loud music, and talking to women wearing tight t-shirts. 

This blatant duplicity is a not a symptom of any actual affinity for the beliefs or actions of international terrorists on the part of leftists.  Remember, most terrorists want to kill not just Americans, but homosexuals, atheists, and feminists as well.  So, there is no way the left would actually support groups who hate so many of their core constituencies.  The current leftist human rights groups current concern for the health and safety of terrorist captives during the War on Terror is nothing but an intellectually dishonest attempt to co-opt the cause of terrorist detainees and warp it into yet another front in the lefts War on America.

Most liberal international groups could care less for the alleged plight of terrorists being held by the American military.  If the United States was not involved in this matter, then the international community would pay no more attention to the conditions of Americas detainees than they do the 300,000 dead Christians in the Darfur region of the Sudan, or the rights of hundreds of slaughtered civilians who died at the hands of the very terrorists the left is now trying to protect. 

As usual, liberals are only involved in this issue because they sense the opportunity to further their own goals and agenda from within it.  And that goal is to force the United States to become a European style Socialistic welfare state. 

In order to reach this end, the left must force several changes not just in the behavior and beliefs of the American government, but its citizens as well.  Some of the traits that must be eliminated are national pride, self reliance, moral clarity, and a sense of individualism.  If the left can succeed in purging these traits from the character of America and her people, then they will be no different from the phlegmatic, corrupt, and weak European nations they so envy. 

In the opinion of the left, the best way to do this is to confront the United States on every front, criticize its every failure, ridicule it every victory and question its every motivation.  It might be the conditions of terrorist detainees today, but it will be the plight of the dolphins, or global warming on another.  The actual cause does not matter, so long as they are able to obstruct the United States from doing what is right.

For decades during the Cold War, liberals aligned themselves with the Communist Bloc.  You will notice that there was never a line forming of these leftists to leave the Free World and find greener pastures on the plains of Siberia.  However, that did not stop them from criticizing every effort made by the United States and praising every abuse of the Soviets.  Today, Communism is nothing but a pipe dream even to its most ardent adherents, but the left has still not stopped complaining.  Now they are supporting the cause of international terrorists, and yet once again, you do not see Americas mosques filling up with the ranks of the lefts former atheists, converted homosexuals, and reformed feminists who now realize there is nothing better in life than never showing your face in public and walking three feet behind your husband.  It is not that liberals are necessarily hypocrites, but that they see themselves as part of a larger War on America in which the War on Terror is just a small part.  And, just as in any war, conflict sometimes makes strange bedfellows, and the enemy of your enemy becomes your friend.

The problem for the left is that they have never thought their cause out to the end and considered the consequences if they actually succeed in their goals.  If the left can one day turn America into a timid giant, who would be left to defend them from the all those whose rights they fought to protect?


Justin Darr 2005
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