PROMETHEAN ANTAGONIST

I'm clearly no fan of leftist political parties or organizations, but it's nice to see that there are a few that actually maintain some consistency in the standards they espouse and are not allying themselves with the resurgent fascism of our times – Islamo-Fascist-Sharia-Jihad. Now if we could only convince the pampered spoiled leftists of The West to the sobering appraisals quoted in this recent post at FRONTPAGEMAG.COM;

“...Samir Qassir, a Lebanese center-left leader murdered by the Syrians, often spoke of anti-Americanism as 'the last refuge of the scoundrel' in the Middle East. 'Politics is always a question of choice,' Qassir said in one of his last articles. 'Here in the Middle East, we face a choice between democracy and alliance with the United States on one hand and surrender to religious fanatics and terrorists on the other'."

"Skimming through the Middle Eastern press these days can produce unexpected results. It's not rare to see a virulently anti-American article by an American or Western European leftist - and, alongside it on the same page, a pro-American article from an Arab, Iranian or Afghan progressive figure."

"In Iran, for example, Hussein Shariatmadari - the ultra-Islamist editor of the daily newspaper Kayhan and a theoretician of the extreme right - often admiringly cites such American leftist figures as Noam Chomsky, Michael Moore and Jane Fonda."

"Having all but abandoned its traditional opposition to capitalism and the bourgeois democratic system, much of the Western Left is forced to cling to anti-Americanism as its backbone."

"To be sure, anti-Americanism is not the ailment of the Western Left alone. Extreme-right parties are also vehemently anti-American. Jean-Marie Le Pen, leader of the French neofascist National Front, is as opposed to the new democratic Iraq as Spain's Socialist Premier Jose Luis Zapatero..."

To any honest observer of contemporary politics, there should be no surprises here.

# posted by Promethean Antagonist @ 11:36 AM