The Left's Self-Consuming Hatred

I suppose it should come as no surprise but the reaction of Zarqawi's death to many on the left was nothing short of incomprehensible.

The opinions ranged from dismissive to delusional. "No big deal" was common. Funny how big a deal it was when Bush failed to capture or kill Zarqawi for 3 years. Others were more psychoneurotic , Zarqawi was a "creation of the administration" and this was a "planned wag the dog event" to take the spotlight off of Haditha and the struggling Iraq situation. There were even apologists for Zarqawi, those who believe he was not a monster but rather a altruistic freedom fighter who was simply reacting to the cruel and misguided policies of an imperalistic power.

All had one common theme however, to minimize or delgitimize the significant event. The hatred of Bush is so intense that any success whatsoever must be bastardized. No longer is it us against them it's us against him, as matter of fact it been that way for some time now. Our country is no longer their country under the present administration and they would see it fail rather than Bush achieve success.

As much problem as I and most on the right had with Bill Clinton as President, I never once wished his failure at expense of our country. Conservatives never rejoiced when the missiles he sent blew the asses off a few camels and not bin Laden. Many of us questioned Bosnia but we all hailed the jailing of Milosevic. We on the right grieved over Mogadishu rather than celebrated the catastrophe as more evidence of Clintons incompetence. We never chose to sacrifice our country for what was best for our party.

Any clear thinking American knows that the termination of a monster like Zarqawi is significant and, to use Bush's quote, "a good thing". How good is yet to be seen. Can anyone imagine what the public reaction would have been in 1943 if we blew up Hermann Goering and the out of office party had declared it a "non-event".