'Blame America'fever infects left

NY Daily News ^ | 5/8/03 | Richard Cohen

[areafiftyone]

At the 1984 Republican National Convention, Jeane Kirkpatrick, then the Reagan administration's UN delegate, gave a speech that has stuck with me. She blasted the Democratic Party's approach to foreign affairs, repeating the phrase "the blame-America-first crowd." I hated the speech at the time but have recently reread it. It has aged better than I have.

Kirkpatrick's mantra mostly applied to the Cold War. But it could just as aptly be applied to some of those - note the modifier "some" - who opposed the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and almost everything else the U.S. does.

[pulaskibush]

The Democrat Party has been taken over by Anti-American Socialists.

Fortunately, the more these Socialists open their mouths, the more people hate them.

[BrookdalePark]

My gracious. I never expected to read anything so reasonable from Richard Cohen. Must be a trick.

[Only1choice____Freedom]

That's like saying the AIDS virus infecting HIV positive patients.

Communism infects China.

Danger infects soldiers at war.

Extremeism infects Islamic terrorists.

Where do they think this came from?

[Tex-Con-Man]

O.K., now, is this THE Richard Cohen, or is there a different Richard Cohen...One that is capable of writing an op-ed column without at least a token sneer at conservatives?

[areafiftyone]

Shocking isn't it?

[Paleo Conservative]

Beneath this reasoning seethes a perplexing animosity toward the U.S. - not the people, but the government and the economic system.

Yes the people too. Especially Republicans.

[Billthedrill]

This, from Richard Cohen? Are...are...are you sure you got the byline right?

[Chirodoc]

I think the "blame America first crowd" is a minority in our country. Unfortunately, the same crowd is a majority in the press and media.

[beckett]

The Democrats are losing the support of American Jews, a loss whose damaging effect to the party cannot possibly be overstated.

[Dark Wing]

ping

[Grampa Dave]

The Rat party of Death, has a few basic planks:

Abortion, Hate America, Hate Religion, Raise our Taxes and Spend More, support any communist or Islamofacist despot, and hate GW!

[johnb838]

Even in this they try to divide us by driving a wedge between us and our parents or grandparents who became democrats when liberalism wasn't a dirty word and a euphemism for socialism and who therefore never understood why we, the younger generation, ran to the republicans in such great numbers.

[Nat Turner]

dont forget racism, class warfare and ignorance

[speedy]

This is one of several recent columns now where Richard Cohen -- a charter member of the "Blame America" crowd he now derides -- has taken a sensible position. Ladies and gentlemen of Free Republic, I think we have another convert. Richard Cohen, come on down. (Applause.)

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[Susannah]

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