Krugman, the new Jane Fonda

Paul Krugman's article today in the NYT is exactly the kind of amoral and defeatist commentary heard from the left that's led to their decline into a completely dissonant and negative bunch of hooligans with no message and no ideas. They long for the days before 9/11, when the answer to terrorist attacks was to throw a bunch of cruise missiles at empty mud huts in Afghanistan and pat ourselves on the back for a job well done.

Pulling out of Iraq before their military and political infrastructure is prepared to take on the insurgency and win the hearts and minds of its citizens is amoral and is representative of the new Left. However incompetently Bill Clinton addressed the Somalia and Haiti, he was at least somewhat willing to provide force to get the job done. These days, the Left consists of a bunch of isolationists who love freedom...as long as it's only for them. For everyone else, the status quo, stability. They were content with letting Saddam Hussein stay in power butchering his own citizens, just as they're content now to let one of the former U.S. embassy hostage-takers in Iran, the new president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, call for a worldwide Islamic revolution with nuclear weapons as its sword.

Let's be frank about the Left: they're cowards. Cowards for not facing the problem and finding real solutions. Cowards for not standing up to terrorists, and cowards for equating America and its soldiers to Nazis, willfully ignoring true suffering in the prisons of countries like China and the brutality of countries under the sway of Islamists.