“But not only are they untroubled by these things. Tellingly, they can’t even imagine another person who would be.”

I would posit just the opposite. We are overwhelming the ones troubled by the deaths of American soldiers. People of your type are simply using them as political footballs to advance an agenda. Your concern for actual soldiers seems minimal. You care about numbers and not about individuals. How many milblogs do you read, how much money have you sent to the USO or other organizations that support soldiers’ real needs, what have you done to make their jobs easier? Funny but they don’t seem to count you doing everything you can to undercut their mission as “supporting” them.

We understand their bravery and their willingness to takes risks on our behalf. We honor them for their sacrifices and the decision they made to volunteer. They (and we who support their mission) realize they are making those sacrifices for the greater good. They know that people who came before them did the same for them and for all of us. I would suggest that we understand what they are risking (and in some cases, giving) their lives for whereas you have proven yourselves clueless. People honoring an idea bigger than themselves and willing to risk their very lives to achieve it is outside the life experience provided by your stunted world view.

Those on the Left do not seem to have been much affected by the deaths of over 3,000 Americans on 9/11. Suicide bombings, perpetrated against Israeli civilians didn’t seem to bother them at all—many on the Left said they were justified!

They weren’t bothered by the thousands of Iraqis mudered by Saddam, the Americans killed in numerous embassy bombings, and aboard the US Cole during the Clinton Administration. They supported the war in Kosovo, even without UN approval.

Heck, the Left isn’t sorry about the Vietnamese who were killed, forced to flee their country or buried alive in “re-education camps” after the Vietcong took over.

Yet now, we’re supposed to believe they’re the ones with a conscience?

But not only are they untroubled by these things. Tellingly, they can’t even imagine another person who would be. They can’t even imagine an American who would value the lives of their fellow citizens.

Now why would this be so? I really don’t pretend to have an answer. A psychologist might posit that the inability to even imagine other people being concerned for their fellow citizens is an symptom of sociopathy. I prefer to see that their lack of concern is part of a group trance I call the circle dance…

I’ll just hit you with two old sayings in response to that:

Better late than never.

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A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

The important point is that he is coming from the inside. They can’t dismiss him as some neocon intruder into their cozy little world. He’s proving that just because you’re “of the left” doesn’t mean you have to be a terrorist apologist.

Desired policy: Out now.
Policy taken: Out now (as of 1974, cut off of funding).
Result: end of war — SE Asian genocide.

The Left supported policies that resulted in genocide. And yet they claim “Moral Superiority”.

Denial and guilt.

It’s quite apparent from his posts and his private correspondence that he is at a loss as to why people he wants to respect and should be at home with have wandered so far afield into apologias for terrorists, thugs, and oppressors.

I like normblog, but it is quite apparent that Norm was a bit naive about his chosen political affiliations. I mean, same old same old, and he is surprised and hurt? It’s not like this sort of hypocrisy has not been SOP on the left, going back, lo, these many years to at least the October coup in Russia.

Horowitz eventually discovered the same as Norm is discovering, but at least David had the excuse of being raised as a red diaper baby.