August 14, 2006

Deep moral confusion...

From an appalled feminist...

...The peace movement lost a foe in Reagan but has gone on to find new friends in today’s Stop the War movement. Women pushing their children in buggies bearing the familiar symbol of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament marched last weekend alongside banners proclaiming “We are all Hezbollah now” and Muslim extremists chanting “Oh Jew, the army of Muhammad will return.”

For Linda Grant, the novelist, who says that “feminism” is the one “ism” she has not given up on, it was a shocking sight: “What you’re seeing is an alliance of what used to be the far left with various Muslim groups and that poses real problems. Saturday’s march was not a peace march in the way that the Ban the Bomb marches were. Seeing young and old white women holding Hezbollah placards showed that it’s a very different anti-war movement to Greenham. Part of it feels the wrong side is winning.”...(Thanks to Rand)

That the left has turned sick and evil is rather too obvious to comment on. My question is, were they sick when they opposed Reagan for standing up to the Soviet Union? Or just confused?

Posted by John Weidner at August 14, 2006 11:19 AM
Comments

I was in downtown Chicago last week and I came across one of these protests. One of their chants was, “Long live the intifada”. At first I thought I’d mis-heard, but then they said it again.

Posted by: Mike Plaiss at August 14, 2006 12:42 PM

I think they were just confused— or possibly scared. Having the threat of nuclear annihilation hanging over one's head might be apt to make one wary.

Of course, those types have never tried appeasing a bully.

Posted by: B. Durbin at August 14, 2006 08:11 PM
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