From a Raleigh News and Observer letter:
Iran and Syria must be laughing their heads off. They sat back and watched as Bush & Co. rushed to war in Iraq on false pretenses to satisfy ideology and egos. They sat back and watched as we depleted our resources, depleted our military and depleted our standing in the world. Now they will move in for the kill in Israel, in the region, and, they think, in the world.
Those of us who were against this fabricated war in the beginning were asked by the Republicans and the nationalists, "Why do you hate your country?" Hello?
Ah, yes, leftards at their best.
In response, I wrote this:
Iran and Syria must be laughing their heads off. They sat back and watched as the American Left complained non stop against any measure used to fight the war on terror. The laughed as the American Left did all they could to undermine the United States. They sit back and laugh as the American Left states uncategorically that our military is depleted. And they laughed at 30 years of treating terrorism as a police problem.
And now they laugh at people who call for diplomacy and blame President Bush, instead of the terrorist organizations and those who back them.
They laugh at people who are so caught up in seething Bush hatred that they constantly recycle stale talking points about Iraq. I'm still waiting for all that Iraqi oil to show up, myself.
Those of us who do not have an irrational hatred of everything Bush have to wonder "why do you hate your country? Why you insist on undercutting the USA against those who propose to destroy her?"
We'll see if the N&O has the chutzpah to print it.
