>Please don't take it personally my comment about
> "the left" denying that there ever were WMD.
Oh, I *know* the left youre talking about.. I gripe about them often, as does Hitchens..
> Clearly however you are in a distinct minority
> now among the liberal, left-leaning movement
We are few... just look at the estrangement of Hitchens... somehow that Scientology apologist Cockburn is lauded while the Hitch is reviled...
> of those who will admit we were right to do what we
> did in Iraq and that we're wrong not to be
> asking what became of WMD.
It's a problem of proportionalism, I'm afraid. The anti-conservative paranoia of the *honest and earnest* part of the left is as deep-seated as say some of the xenophobic attitudes I see from the other side of the aisle (no, let's not go there and just relish this moment of allied thinking ... ;-), and hence they misperceive and/or exaggerate the threat of US hegemony vs. Islamic fascism & WMD in Araby. And that's the earnest and guileless left, the Buddhists, the Quakers, the milquetoast isolationists... Then there's the crypto-fascist WWPrs and LaRoucheite Ramsey Clarkers & Chomskyites who are deluded to a level I find hard to comprehend. They feed the most puerile propaganda to the guiless sheep and still think it'd be nice if Kosovo was a howling wasteland so long as it proved that the USA was evil incarnate.
I'm an apostate's apostate, so I'm in disagreement with everyone.
is as deep-seated as say some of the xenophobic attitudes I see from the other side of the aisle (no, let's not go there and just relish this moment of allied thinking ... ;-),
IT's okay, I would have agreed with you. Unless I miss my mark, I'm thinking you're referring to the Buchananite/Novak wing of the conservative movement, a movement of isolationist small-thinkers I've had issue with for many, many years. Their protectionism and advocacy for fortress America are galling to me, and to my thinking contradict true conservatism, just like the vituperative America-bashing we see coming out of the left contradicts the FDR/Truman/JFK model of foreign activism and liberationist thinking.