Insurgent Praises US forces

What?!

But it is true!
By insurgent, I mean Jose Ramos-Horta of course. Different sort of freedom fighter. From what I know, he didn't pick up a gun to fight off the Indonesians, he picked up a pen and used the mushy stuff that lives in between his ears.

In a particularly poignant paragraph:

TIME and again as I watch the barbarity inflicted on innocent Iraqi civilians, often women and children, pass with seeming silence and indifference from the rest of the world, I ask where are those who are so quick to take to the streets to protest every alleged US sin, be it real or imaginary?

If they are so appalled at the graphic photos showing the depraved acts committed by a small number of American servicemen – photos that, never let it be forgotten, were unearthed as a result of the US Army's own investigation – surely they should be even more appalled by the daily carnage inflicted on the Shiah majority in Iraq.

Instead, those who hate the US seem to believe that every wrong committed by an American serviceman must not only be loudly condemned but portrayed as a deliberate act by the US Government, while the systematic and daily barbarities perpetrated predominantly by Sunni Muslims upon their fellow Muslims pass without comment. Such hypocrisy and unwarranted attacks increase the pressure on the US to cut and run from Iraq...

For all the present violence, in a few years Iraq could easily evolve into a peaceful and democratic country. Whether that transpires ultimately rests in the hands of the millions of Iraqis. But they cannot succeed if they are abandoned. And the brave, young American soldiers whom we today see cruising the treacherous streets of Iraq, sometimes battling the terrorists, sometimes conversing with ordinary Iraqis, will be remembered as the heroes who made this possible.

See Keith Windschuttle's brilliant dissection of the traiterous Left's reasoning for blaming the West and in particular the US for all of the world's ills.

Treason is a word that is not used enough in our polite society. I'm not saying the Left is traiterous. Simply elements of it clearly are.

[Hat tip: Tim Blair]

Insurgent Praises US forces

What?!

But it is true!
By insurgent, I mean Jose Ramos-Horta of course. Different sort of freedom fighter. From what I know, he didn't pick up a gun to fight off the Indonesians, he picked up a pen and used the mushy stuff that lives in between his ears.

In a particularly poignant paragraph:

TIME and again as I watch the barbarity inflicted on innocent Iraqi civilians, often women and children, pass with seeming silence and indifference from the rest of the world, I ask where are those who are so quick to take to the streets to protest every alleged US sin, be it real or imaginary?

If they are so appalled at the graphic photos showing the depraved acts committed by a small number of American servicemen – photos that, never let it be forgotten, were unearthed as a result of the US Army's own investigation – surely they should be even more appalled by the daily carnage inflicted on the Shiah majority in Iraq.

Instead, those who hate the US seem to believe that every wrong committed by an American serviceman must not only be loudly condemned but portrayed as a deliberate act by the US Government, while the systematic and daily barbarities perpetrated predominantly by Sunni Muslims upon their fellow Muslims pass without comment. Such hypocrisy and unwarranted attacks increase the pressure on the US to cut and run from Iraq...

For all the present violence, in a few years Iraq could easily evolve into a peaceful and democratic country. Whether that transpires ultimately rests in the hands of the millions of Iraqis. But they cannot succeed if they are abandoned. And the brave, young American soldiers whom we today see cruising the treacherous streets of Iraq, sometimes battling the terrorists, sometimes conversing with ordinary Iraqis, will be remembered as the heroes who made this possible.

See Keith Windschuttle's brilliant dissection of the traiterous Left's reasoning for blaming the West and in particular the US for all of the world's ills.

Treason is a word that is not used enough in our polite society. I'm not saying the Left is traiterous. Simply elements of it clearly are.

[Hat tip: Tim Blair]