As the colossal pile of debris which was once World Trade Center Towers 1 and 2 was still smoking in Manhattan, the anti-war protesters sprang into action, eager to decry the violence of military conflict. They weren't against the 19 Arab/Islamic lowlifes who murdered 2985 of their fellow Americans, or the backward death cult ideology which inspired them. They were preemptively protesting against the Bush administration for any, as yet unstated, intentions to respond militarily to this horrendous act of war against us. And to many of these people, it was only natural for Islamic terrorists to carry out this cowardly and evil attack against helpless civilians. They blamed an imaginary, monolithic U.S. agenda of imperialism and oppression played out around the world, presumably to oppress the noble savage for the purpose of sating the ravenous greed of the demonic Western capitalists. In the meantime, sons, daughters, mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, wives, husbands, and friends were emerging from a stupefied numbness into the realization that they now had a lifetime of profound agony, and for no good reason. There's no goodness or reason in slaughtering innocent people by the thousands in the name of your barbaric God.

After the people of Israel had watched their noncombatant family, friends, and lovers killed indiscriminately for years by vicious Arab/Islamic terrorists, they decided that until it stopped, they would stop it themselves. The IDF instituted a program of what I call "pay to play"—terrorists and their leaders were arrested when possible, and summarily liquidated when arrest was impracticable. A security barrier began to go up to keep the hateful killers from creeping into Israel to fulfill their delusional bargain with God of mass murder for heaven. Oh, the hue and cry that went up against Israel—"the apartheid, racist state"—over their audacity in refusing to let their citizens be killed by the dozens, at will! The angry Islamists, leftists, and antisemites even had the International Court of (an egregious miscarriage of) Justice on their side.

Western "peace" activists and useful idiots for Islam joined with Arabs and Muslims worldwide in their furious indignation after the IDF made human toast out of two of the most ignoble and hateful Islamic terrorists of modern times. When Israel killed Sheikh Ahmed Yassin—founder and leader of premier Jew/Israeli-killer outfit, Hamas—and his successor, Abdel Aziz Rantisi, one month later, these people had the unabashed nerve to condemn Israel. These were very bad men who had the blood of who knows how many innocent unarmed Israeli men, women, and children on their hands. Yet, the anti-war multicultural creeps were actually incensed when Israel provided them with the Hellfire rocket early retirement plan. That's how far this madness has gone. By the way, I personally celebrated their demise. Without compunction.

These are the enlightened, progressive masses who feel that their categorical disdain for any of their countrymen who disagree with them makes them fit to decide how we all should think, act, and live. Their bizarre, relativistic anything-goes tolerance is dangerous and it makes them believe that anyone with a normal balance of fairness and skepticism is just a bigot. They're anti-war, but they support the Palestinian Arab intifada, which translated into English may as well be "violent campaign of terror against Israeli citizens, soldiers or civilians—whoever, as long as they're Israeli." They call the United States imperialistic when the Religion of Peace&trade, which they ignorantly fawn over, has a long and ongoing bloody history of violent expansionism. They accuse America of a systemic policy of torture because captured Islamic terrorists in Abu Ghraib were humiliated with women's undies and naked human pyramids, but they were in the streets screaming over America's invasion to overthrow the sociopathic tyrant who regularly had Abu Ghraib prisoners shot, beaten, tortured, amputated, blinded, mutilated, beheaded, thrown off of the roof, raped, and more.

I'd like to ask the enlightened, morally relative, and tolerant people one question: Where are you when it counts? When it really counts?

Have any of you ever marched around with a sign that reads "Syria Out of Lebanon—Let the People Decide!" at one of your anti-everything sane and moral rallies? I don't remember any stories about you folks running over to Iraq in the wake of the first Gulf War to act as human shields when the Kurds and Shi'ites were being murdered en masse by Saddam Hussein (the guy whose regime you vehemently objected to being toppled). Why is that? Remember in 1982 (I know, a lot of you weren't yet born, or don't care) when Hafez al-Assad shelled the city of Hama, killing more than 20,000? It was an operation to crush the mujahideen that you people seem to be so fond of supporting. Lots of civilians died too—the city was literally razed to the ground. You weep expedient tears over Rachel Corrie—one of your newest human political props—who was a misguided (self-hating) American girl who tragically died defending Palestinian Arab/Islamic terror. Where was your self-serving outrage when the other Rachels died? Do they not count because they're Jewish? Because they were citizens of the "apartheid" Jewish state of Israel?

And hey, how about protesting a real, bona fide genocide that is happening right now? Here's your chance! Why aren't you compassionate, forward-thinking people marching at 1st and 43rd in Manhattan every weekend to demand that Kofi Annan stop the wholesale slaughter and displacement of the indigenous black population in the Sudan? Is it okay when it's Arabs pursuing a systematic program of mass murder and land theft of blacks? You seethe with self-righteous contempt over the invention of Israeli oppression of Arabs who are an immigrant people, yet when Arabs have the real thing going on in full swing down the street, we don't hear so much as bong-cough. The nightmarish situation going on in Darfur is documented by journalists from all over the world, by NGOs, the UN, and government fact finders, and I assure you that the lives of these people are worth just as much mine, yours, and the lives of an Israeli or a Palestinian Arab.

I don't give my allegiance to any political party. I'll criticize Bush and I'll commend Clinton (not Gore, though—sorry) when it's the rational, ethical thing to do. I'll vote my conscience—whether it leans right or left of center on any issue—and be grateful every time that I live in a nation where I have the liberty to do so. But I've got to say, you people on the left are an embittered lot who have failed miserably at using your sense, passions, and resources when it means the most. The right has my sincere respect for the demonstrable ability to maintain and use a decent moral compass when it comes to fighting the good fight. While you prop up and apologize for totalitarian regimes, Islamofascism, and the servile appeasement of evil, the right has the good sense and the love of freedom and justice to seize the moment when it arrives, put a red dot on evil's head, and blow it clear off its repressive, brutal, and repulsive body.

This past winter we all got excited here in the blogiverse over Spirit of America's Friends of Iraq Blogger Challenge, to raise money for helping everyday Iraqis. Well, some of us got excited about it, at least. I chose "Books for Iraqi Kids" and we raised $216 on my humble (three month-old at the time) site to get schoolkids in Iraq Charlotte's Web, The Cat In the Hat, Diary of Anne Frank, Curious George et al. It was great—a nonpartisan, apolitical way for people with blogs to do something good for Iraqis. That's an important part of America for me—helping others out if you can, especially people who are trying their hand at freedom for the first time. But the weird thing was, none of the leftie blogs participated. Not one. All of these pharisaical leftists were nowhere to be found with their compassion and progressivism for a simple fund-raising effort to benefit people who really need it. It's a shame too, because some of the big left of center blogs could have pulled in some decent money.

So much petty hypocrisy and vainglorious pretense. When we're talking about preventing genocide, stopping massive terror attacks, or spreading freedom, it's not about right and left—it's about right and wrong.

Copyright ©2005 Patrick D. O'Brien: may not be copied, published, or otherwise used (except for quotes) without express permission of author. Originally posted at Clarity & Resolve. All pictures from zombietime.com.