U.S. left assists radical Islamists

David Horowitz, former leftist and founder of the New Left movement of the 1960s, has turned conservative author. In his book, Unholy Alliance: Radical Islam and the American Left, he explains the links between these two movements.

Horowitz rightly asserts that since the United States is considered by leftists to be an unjust society, all its wars are considered to be unjust by that very fact. This led many on the left after the Sept. 11 terror attack, including former presidents Carter and Clinton, to either insinuate or state directly that it was our fault or that "we had it coming!"

They see the terrorists as misunderstood and simply striving to free themselves from oppression by a capitalist world. In reality they are fanatical and murderous barbarians bent on imposing their religion on the world. The left continues to aid and abet radical Islamic movements, and to make excuses for their brutality.

Hence, we have a virulent anti-war left that's never going to approve of any American-led war, even if it's essentially a righteous war to defend ourselves, to liberate the Iraqi people from tyranny, enforce U.N. resolutions, stabilize a region and oust a dictator who was clearly funding and harboring terrorists.

Unfortunately, the anti-war movement, led and run by extreme leftists, has found a kindred soul and a welcome home in the Democratic Party.

Probably without exception, members of the U.S. House and Senate who are Democrats are of this mind-set. They will not acknowledge the good and positive things about the society and the country they live in, but harbor hatred and disdain instead.

They have an unrealistic and unattainable goal of utopia, to be made possible only by the tearing down of our present society - a project which they have been laboring diligently at for some time.

Robert Smock

Hephzibah