I have a few more thoughts on my previous post concerning Hitchens. The liberal-left leaning ideology has not accorded itself well in the last decade. While genocide and ethnic cleansing were occurring in Bosnia and Kosovo, the only real solution was destruction of Milosevic and the other warloads. The Left balked and chewed their nails and did...well, nothing at all except attempt to thwart any effort to end the annihilation of men, women , and children. Their next chance to aide a beleaguered people was Rwanda, again nothing.

After 9/11 they wrung their hands and said that we should do nothing because to do something would only anger the Islamo-fascists more and lead to more bloodshed. When GW Bush stepped up and did fight back the leftists equated him to the Taliban or worse, including Adolph Hitler. The leftists have shown that their ideology is morally bankrupt in many, many ways.

The Chomsky and Tariq Ali types of the world have no credibility anymore after siding with Saddam and giving any iota of credence to the thought that Islamic terrorists had justifiable means to attack America. Goodbye to your useless pandering to murderers and goodbye to the discredited ideology you cling to like a life raft. Good riddance to any thought that Noam Chomsky has any acceptable seat at the table of rational dialogue and solution seeking.

Democracy and capitalism are not perfect, no economic or political system is. However, more opportunities are created for the people of the world if these systems are adopted and allowed to flourish. The liberal-left should be cheering the Iraqi people on and assisting them in all possible ways. Instead they harp on every soldier's death and hope that the Iraqi democracy experiment goes awry so that the US is not encouraged to attempt it with another nation raped, oppressed, and beaten by a thug-like dictator.