Faulty Peace Rhetoric of the Left

”In any case, the entire episode started in March 2003 was condemned as an ’occupation’ that has ’brought nothing to the Iraqi people except ever increasing death and destruction’.

I suppose it depends on how you define ’nothing’. If two elections, one constitutional referendum, a free press, an independent judiciary, greater religious liberty, the lifting of economic sanctions, reintegration into the region and the wider international community count for ’nothing’, then nothing is a reasonable assessment. As many leaders of the anti-war movement have nothing but contempt for ’bourgeois democracy’ and hate capitalism and its manifestations, then, for them, ’nothing’ is entirely accurate.”

Tim Hames writes about the rhetoric absurdities used by the so-called peace activists that arranged protest rallies on 18 March. As I wrote that day, most of the Swedish protesters are communists with a very poor democratic record. There is not a doubt in my mind that a majority of the far-left demonstrators really would prefer Saddam Hussein to the new, democratically elected government of Iraq. Like Hemes points out, that is why so many of the anti-war protesters completely ignore the two elections and the one referendum held in Iraq after the US-led liberation began.

(Via Dick Erixon.)