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January 3, 2005
Unholy Alliance
Viewed from a logical perspective, one would think that the left in Europe and the US would view radical Islam as it's greatest enemy. After all, the latter is violently opposed to the "progressive" program that the former espouses. Further, one would imagine that the left would at least be happy that the Taliban have been overthrown in Afghanistan and with progress being made towards a better way of life for the people of that country.
However, as we've known for some time, this view would be mistaken. It would be one thing if the left were simply opposed to the war in Iraq, or expoused the view that "all war is bad" or something like that. It would even be one thing if they ranted on with their wild theories about how the threat from terrorism has been exaggerated by the dastardly "neocons".
But as David Horowitz has amply documented in Unholy Alliance, Radical Islam and the American Left, there are those in our midst who identify with the Islamofacsists to the point of working to betray our nation. Horowitz is one to know the Left better than most, as he was one of their leading figures until the late '70s/early '80s.
Horowitz answers the question as to why the left denounces our efforts in the War on Terror with such venom. First, he says, we must understand how they view the United States. The ideology of the left is really that of nihilism. He quotes Karl Marx
Not only is the radical revolution not about the reform of a socual reality, and therefore it's preservation, it is the opposite. It is about the total destruction of one: "By force of the overall definition, in the present society all laws are unjust, all consciousness is false, all relations must be corrupt, all institutions appear oppressive." In Marx's chilling phrase in The Eighteenth Brumaire, "Everything that exists deserves to perish."It therefore follows that to the left "Because America is an unjust society, all its wars are unjust by virtue of that fact alone." No further evidence is needed. One need not search far on the Internet to find blogs and articles that espouse these views.
Horowitz documents this sort of thinking himself by quoting and analyzing the writings of the important leftists intellectuals of today; Eric Hobsvawm, Gerda Lerner, Noam Chomsky, Maurice Zeitlin, Todd Gitlin, Howard Zinn, Norman Mailer, and many others.
Horowitz lists the standard Islamic inditements against the west. He then asks
These inditements are easily embraced by the Western leftists. Less comprehensible is their support from the Islamic movements themselves, which represent so many values seemingly antithetic to their progressive creeds. But as previously noted, the history of the Western oleft shows that these are not the insurmountable obstacles they may seem. Radicalism is a cause whose utopian agendas result in an ethic where the ends outweigh and ultimately justify any means. Like the salvationist agendas of jihad, the Left's apocalyptic goal of "social justice" is the equivalent of an earthly redemption. A planet saved, a world without poverty, racism, inequality, war - what means would not be justified to achieve such millennial ends? By way of contrast, less ambitious reform movements are able to weigh gains against probable costs, and avoid the kind of excesses and atrocities endemic to radical causes.
This is the kind of thinking that prompted the Russian communist revolutionaries to assassinate Petr Stolypin, the somewhat reforminst minister to Tsar Nicholas II.
We have a Fifth Column in our midst, and Horowitz has provided excellent documentation for anyone who wants proof.
Posted by Tom at January 3, 2005 10:57 AM
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