Tuesday, August 7, 2007

“You grew up with freedom, so you can spit on freedom.”

How to explain the contempt our domestic left exudes for all things American, and why is it that foreigners, especially those raised under totalitarian regimes appreciate our society so much more than so many of us seem to? The obvious answer for the latter is that they understand our freedom in a way that only those who have lived under tyranny, abuse, and deprivation can. That is why the former which is not so readily understood to those of us born to opportunity, can often be more easily and eloquently explained by those who have not shared in our indulgence.

Outside and beyond the lefts reflexive anti-nationalism, the oft-repeated epigram 'familiarity breeds contempt' might explain their virulent anti-Americanism, but upon reflection, I'm not sure lefties are as familiar with what makes American society great, as they are with seditious pop cultural icons, fashionistas, navel-gazing educators, and idiot television news-readers, from whom they take their ideological cues. Thus it really isn't 'familiarity' which breeds contempt, but rather the ignorance, and the fecklessness which results from pampering. It is that sort of reliance on easy answers, or instant gratification which makes the demagogs of the left so attractive and popular, and thus makes our leadership, rather than our ideas the focus of their attacks.

Where is the font from which all this leftist resentment springs? Again, and not coincidentally, it takes a naturalized citizen, in this case former Lt. Gen. Ion Mihai Pacepa, "the highest-ranking intelligence official ever to have defected from the Soviet bloc", to explain it to us, as he does in the most recent WSJ Opinion Journal.

The history and mechanics of the communist attack on our presidency is fascinating, but when Mr. Pacepa wrote;

Now we are again at war. It is not the president's war. It is America's war, authorized by 296 House members and 76 senators. I do not intend to join the armchair experts on the Iraq war. I do not know how we should handle this war, and they don't know either. But I do know that if America's political leaders, Democrat and Republican, join together as they did during World War II, America will win. Otherwise, terrorism will win. Abu Musab al-Zarqawi predicted just before being killed: "We fight today in Iraq, tomorrow in the land of the Holy Places, and after there in the West."

On July 28, I celebrated 29 years since President Carter signed off on my request for political asylum, and I am still tremendously proud that the leader of the Free World granted me my freedom. During these years I have lived here under five presidents--some better than others--but I have always felt that I was living in paradise. My American citizenship has given me a feeling of pride, hope and security that is surpassed only by the joy of simply being alive. There are millions of other immigrants who are equally proud that they restarted their lives from scratch in order to be in this magnanimous country. I appeal to them to help keep our beloved America united and honorable. We may not be able to change the habits of our current political representatives, but we may be able to introduce healthy new blood into the U.S. Congress.

For once, the communists got it right. It is America's leader that counts. Let's return to the traditions of presidents who accepted nothing short of unconditional surrender from our deadly enemies. Let's vote next year for people who believe in America's future, not for the ones who live in the Cold War past.


it reminded me of this interview of Ayaan Hirsi Ali on Canadian television by a leftist nitwit named Avi Lewis, wherein Ms. Ali matter-of-factly chided the socialist retard that “(Lewis) grew up with freedom, so (he) can spit on freedom.”

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