MORE IDIOTIC LEFTIST CRAP FROM KRISTOF AND THE NYTIMES

KRISTOF: "What Egypt Can Teach America "

By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF

It’s a new day in the Arab world — and, let’s hope, in American relations to the Arab world.

The truth is that the United States has been behind the curve not only in Tunisia and Egypt for the last few weeks, but in the entire Middle East for decades.

We supported corrupt autocrats as long as they kept oil flowing and weren’t too aggressive toward Israel.

• WHAT A LOAD OF ANTI-OIL ANTI-ZIONIST ANTISEMITIC CRAP!

• WHAT FREAKIN' ISRAEL-LOVING CORRUPT OIL AUTOCRATS DID WE SUPPORT!?!?!?

• WE DON'T SUPPORT ALGERIA OR LIBYA - WHO HAVE OIL. AND HATE ISRAEL.

SO WITH REGARD TO THESE, KRISTOF IS WRONG ON BOTH COUNTS.

• WE SUPPORTED EGYPT WHICH HAS NO OIL. SO KRISTOF IS WRONG ON THIS ONE.

• WE SUPPORTED KING OF JORDAN - THEY HAVE NO OIL, EITHER. SO KRISTOF IS WRONG ON THIS ONE, TOO.

TRUE: WE ARE ALLIES OF SAUDI ARABIA.

BUT THE HOUSE OF SAUD HAS RULED THE KINGDOM OF SAUDI ARABIA FOR 100 YEARS - BEFORE THERE WAS MUCH IF ANY OIL BUSINESS IN THE REGION.

AND THEY DON'T SUPPORT ISRAEL.

BESIDES, WE INVENTED THEIR OIL BUSINESS MAKING THEM RICH AND THEN GAVE IT TO THEM.

WE PROTECTED THEM FROM SADDAM WHO USED WMD ON HIS OWN PEOPLE AND WAGED WAR ON KUWAIT AND IRAN.

MR. KRISTOF, WERE WE SUPPOSED TO LET SADDAM INVADE KUWAIT AND THE SAUDI ARABIA!?

WOULDN'T THIS WOULD HAVE VIOLATED THE CARTER DOCTRINE!?

• TRUE: WE SUPPORTED THE SHAH, AN AUTOCRAT WHO WAS GOOD FOR ISRAEL. BUT HE WAS ALSO MUCH MUCH BETTER FOR IRANIANS THAN ANYTHING THAT HAS COME ALONG SINCE. AND BETTER FOR WORLD PEACE, NOT JUST ISRAEL.

• THE SHAH HELPED THE FREE WORLD BY HELPING US PROTECT A VITAL NATIONAL INTEREST: THE FREE FLOW OF OIL.

ISN'T OIL A VITAL NATIONAL INTEREST AND VITAL INTEREST OF OUR ALLIES IN EUROPE?

AS THE MOST POWERFUL NATION IN NATO AND THE FREE WORLD, AREN'T WE SUPPOSED TO TAKE THE LEAD IN PROTECTING THAT INTEREST!?

AREN'T THE GOVERNMENTS OF ALL NATIONS EXPECTED TO DO WHAT IS IN THEIR NATIONAL IONTEREST AND ONTERESTS OF THEIR ALLIES!?

• OR, MR. KRISTOF, WERE WE SUPPOSED TO INVADE SAUDI ARABIA AND INSTALL A DEMOCRACY!?!?

• WHEN WE DID THAT TO IRAQ, KRISTOF AND HIS FREAKIN' PALS ON THE LEFT SCREAMED BLOODY MURDER!

FACT: IDIOT LIBERAL SCUM LIKE KRISTOF ONLY SUPPORT EXPORTING DEMOCRACY WHEN A DEMOCRAT IS IN THE WHITE HOUSE!

THEN THERE'S THIS GEM FROM THIS IDIOT KRISTOF:

1.) Stop treating Islamic fundamentalism as a bogyman and allowing it to drive American foreign policy. American paranoia about Islamism has done as much damage as Muslim fundamentalism itself.

ER UM... ISLAMIC FUNDAMENTALISM IS A BOGYMAN!?!?! WTF!?

• ISLAMIC FUNDAMENTALISTS HAVE PERPETRATED 16000 ATTACKS SINCE 9/11.

• ISLAMIC FUNDAMENTALISTS HAVE KILLED THOUSANDS AND MAIMED OR INJURED TENS OF THOUSANDS. AND NOT JUST IN THE MIDDLE EAST. ALL OVER THE WORLD:
  

• FROM THE PHILIPPINES
• TO THAILAND
  
• TO AFGHANISTAN,
  
• PAKISTAN,
  
• IRAQ,
  
• EGYPT,
  
• TURKEY,
  
• MOROCCO,
  
• ALGERIA,
  
• TUNIS,
  
• SPAIN,
  
• FRANCE,
  
• GERMANY,
  
• RUSSIA,
  
• SWEDEN,
  
• BRITAIN,
  
• THE USA, AND ELSEWHERE.

WERE THESE 16,000 ATTACKS FANTASIES!?

NO: KRISTOF'S VIEW OF ISLAMIC FUNDAMENTALISM IS A FANTASY!

AS TONY BLAIR SAID IN 20012: "THEY ARE ONLY LIMITED BY THEIR MEANS."

REPEAT:

• ISLAMIC FUNDAMENTALISM IS NO BOGYMAN;

• IT IS A REAL GLOBAL MENACE,

• AND ONE THAT IS NOT NEW:

• ISLAMIC FUNDAMENTALISTS HAVE BEEN SLAUGHTERING INFIDELS FOR MORE THAN 1000 YEARS.

IN THE NAME OF ISLAM, ISLAMISTS HAVE KILLED MORE PEOPLE SINCE MOHAMED FIRST COMMITTED GENOCIDE IN MEDINA, THAN ANY OTHER IDEOLOGY IN ALL OF HUMAN HISTORY.

THE ONLY IDEOLOGY WHICH COMES CLOSE IS SOCIALISM.

FACT:

ISLAM KILLED 100 TIMES MORE PEOPLE IN THE LAST 1000 YEARS THAN SOCIALISM DID IN THE 20TH CENTURY, AND MORE THAN CHRISTIANITY DID IN THE LAST 20 CENTURIES.

FACT:

ASIDE FROM FAMINE AND DISEASE, ISLAM IS THE BIGGEST KILLER IN ALL OF HUMAN HISTORY.

GLOBAL JIHAD IS NOT UNREAL.

WHAT IS UNREAL IS HOW ASSHOLES LIKE KRISTOF CAN HAVE A CAREER AND ANY RESPECT AS A COMMENTATOR ON PUBLIC AFFAIRS.

THE ONLY THING MORE RIDICULOUS THAN JERKS LIKE KRISTOF ARE THE JERKS WHO BELIEVE HIM.

AND ANOTHER THING:

THE AUTOCRATS WE SUPPORTED DURING THE COLD WAR WERE ALL BETTER THAN THE LEFTIST ONES. AND THEY HELPED US DEFEAT THE USSR, THE EVIL EMPIRE.

POLITICS IS ABOUT MAKING HARD CHOICES.

PINOCHET AND THE SHAH AND MUBARAK WEREN'T PERFECT, BUT THEY WERE BETTER THAN THE ALTERNATIVES.

WE HAD TO CHOOSE BETWEEN WHAT WAS POSSIBLE. THE IDEAL IS NOT ALWAYS POSSIBLE.

YOU HAVE TO CHOOSE. HOLD YOUR NOSE AND CHOOSE.

LIKE I DID IN 2008.

WHEN I VOTED MCCAIN OVER OBAMA.

YOU HAVE TO HOLD YOUR NOSE WHEN YOU READ THE NYTIMES, TOO!

ROUND UP HERE AT MEMEORANDUM.