THE LEFT TODAY: GUTLESS AND AMORAL

Another BRILLIANT post by Jason over at COUNTERCOLUMN (commenting on Sy Hersh's aritcle in "The Progressive" in which he says we should negotiate with the Iraqi "insurgents" and that he is scared that Bush believes it is his mission to bring democracy to the Middle East ):

The expansion of freedom is a scary prospect for the Left.

Let's reneg on all our commitments, and pull the rug out from under every brave Iraqi who ever took a risk on behalf of his country against terrorism and Ba'athism. Let's sell them down the river.And the elections? Let those be the last in Iraq. Let those be the last in the Middle East. ....

They have no moral cognizance. They have no higher-level ethical reasoning skills. What the Left once was died long ago. All they have is reflex now. The left is morally brain-dead.

They don't believe in taking a stand for the security of the only democracy in the Middle East until this year. They lifted not a finger to bring democracy to anywhere else. They don't even particularly believe in intervening to secure vital natural resources. "No blood for oil" has been a rallying cry for the ignorant for 15 years now.They no longer believe in the advancement of freedom. They no longer believe that people everywhere should have a voice. They no longer believe in people power. They no longer believe in democracy, or the idea that freedom is worth risk or sacrifice. They abandoned Kennedy long ago.

RTWT.