Why We Hate Them

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Title: Why We Hate Them
Gore is a traitor.
The world hates us? Good, we hate the world.
Democrats are bad.
Bad democrats, bad, bad.

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Why We Hate Them
by Ann Coulter
September 25, 2002

I'VE BEEN TOO busy fretting about "why they hate us" to follow the Democrats' latest objections to the war on terrorism. So it was nice to have Al Gore lay out their full traitorous case this week. To show we really mean business, Gore said we should not get sidetracked by a madman developing weapons of mass destruction who longs for our annihilation.

"Traitorous"?!? This is an old and ugly canard, the argument that anyone who disagrees with you is a traitor. Calling Gore and the Democrats traitors is about as slanderous as one can get, and appropriate from the author of Slander. I needn't spend much time refuting this evil mud-slinging; I'll just point out that Democrats are not alone in expressing doubts about Bush's plans. Here's House Republican leader Dick Armey: "We are not an aggressor nation, I don't want us to ever be ... I set a very high standard before I will approve committing our young men and women to any field of danger, and I'll have to be convinced." Patriotism in a democracy does not mean blindly following one's leaders, it means questioning them and demanding proof before taking a huge step into war. Dick Armey knows this; Coulter clearly does not. (And Coulter certainly must know that most Democrats have made it clear they will support Bush's plans; in many ways they've been more pro-Bush than the Republicans.)

Rather, Gore thinks the U.S. military should spend the next 20 years sifting through rubble in Tora Bora until they produce Osama bin Laden's DNA. "I do not believe that we should allow ourselves to be distracted from this urgent task," he said, "simply because it is proving to be more difficult and lengthy than predicted."

Forget Gore, in a Sept 20 interview, Lt. Gen Dan McNeill, the leader of the coalition troops in Afghanistan, said that the battle in Afghanistan will probably go on for at least 18 months. "We haven't won this war yet, but we're winning," He added that there was no good evidence regarding whether Bin Laden was dead or alive, but that the war on terrorism in Afghanistan is about more than "one person, or one personality." Is General McNeill a traitor too, Ann?

Al Bore wants to put the war on terrorism in a lockbox.

Gore also complained that Bush has made the "rest of the world" angry at us. Boo hoo hoo. He said foreigners are not worried about "what the terrorist networks are going to do, but about what we're going to do."

"Boo hoo hoo"? Score one for sophisticated repartee.

Good. They should be worried. They hate us? We hate them. Americans don't want to make Islamic fanatics love us. We want to make them die. There's nothing like horrendous physical pain to quell angry fanatics. So sorry they're angry - wait until they see American anger. Japanese kamikaze pilots hated us once too. A couple of well-aimed nuclear weapons, and now they are gentle little lambs. That got their attention.

"They should be worried." "We hate them." The world? Arabs? Or just terrorists? Gore, as Coulter knows, was talking about world opinion, not terrorist opinion. As for the gleeful and frivolous tone she uses when she talks of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, it's disgusting. The bombing may have been necessary but the death of 150,000 men, women, and children is nothing to chortle over.

Stewing over the "profound and troubling change in the attitude of the German electorate toward the United States," Gore ruefully noted that the German-American relationship is in "a dire crisis." Alas, the Germans hate us.

That's not all. According to Gore, the British hate us, too. Gore said Prime Minister Tony Blair is getting into "what they describe as serious trouble with the British electorate" because of his alliance with the U.S. ("Serious trouble" is British for "serious trouble.")

Yes, it's true, Bush's Iraq plans do not make us popular in Germany and Britain. That's not Gore's fault, that's just a fact. Should he be blamed for pointing this out, and suggesting that Bush needs to do more to maintain our anti-terrorism coalition?

That same night, James Carville--the heart and soul of the Democratic Party--read from the identical talking points on "Crossfire": "The Koreans hate us. Now the Germans--you know that's one against Germany. You know what? You know what? If we had a foreign policy that tried to get people to like us, as opposed to irritating everybody in the damn world, it would be a lot better thing." (Hillary Clinton on James Carville: "Great human being.")

What about Carville's words is so bad?

Perhaps we could get Djibouti to like us if we legalized clitorectomies for little girls. America is fighting for its survival and the Democrats are obsessing over why barbarians hate us.

First, we're talking about Europe and the rest of the world, not Djibouti. Second, while we don't have to like the cultures elsewhere, it doesn't mean it would be smart for us to needlessly antognize them (Check out how that good Bush ally Saudi Arabia treats women). Third, the leaders in the fight against the barbarism of clitorectomies have generally been feminists, a group Coulter has always expressed disdain for; it's a little late for her to jump on the bandwagon.

The Democrats' scrolling series of objections to the war is utterly contradictory. On one hand, liberals say Bush is trying to build an "empire." But on the other hand, they are cross that we haven't turned Afghanistan into the 51st state yet. This follows their earlier argument that Afghanistan would be another Vietnam "quagmire."

No one has suggested turning Afghanistan in the 51 state, and, since the fighting continues, the quagmire line may actually be accurate.

The "empire" argument is wildly popular among the anti-American set. Maureen Dowd said Dick Cheney and "Rummy" were seeking "the perks of empire," hoping to install "lemon fizzes, cribbage and cricket by the Tower of Babel." She warned that invading Iraq would make them hate us: "How long can it be before the empire strikes back?"

Ah yes -- we must mollify angry fanatics who seek our destruction because otherwise they might get mad and seek our destruction.

No, but we don't want to enrage all Arabs and Muslims while we try to get the terrorists. They are not all alike, Ann.

Gore, too, says America will only create more enemies if "what we represent to the world is an empire." But then he complained that we have "abandoned almost all of Afghanistan" - rather than colonizing it, evidently. He seems to think it is our responsibility to "stabilize the nation of Afghanistan" and recommends that we "assemble a peacekeeping force large enough to pacify the countryside."

And then we bring in the lemon fizzes, cribbage and cricket?

Or should we leave them in chaos so terrorism can sprout up again in the wilds?

After tiring themselves out all summer yapping about how Bush can't invade Iraq without first consulting Congress, now the Democrats are huffy that they might actually have to vote. On "Meet the Press" a few weeks ago, Sen. Hillary Clinton objected to having to vote on a war resolution before the November elections, saying, "I don't know that we want to put it in a political context."

It is the United States Constituion that "yaps" about the necessity of Congress declaring war. We live in a republic and Bush should obey its laws.

Yes, it would be outrageous for politicians to have to inform the voters how they stand on important national security issues before an election.

Minority Whip Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., the ranking Democrat on the House intelligence committee, said the Democrats would not have enough information to make an informed decision on Iraq - until January. The war will have to take a back seat to urgent issues like prescription drugs and classroom size until then. The Democratic Party simply cannot rouse itself to battle.

Instead of obsessing over why angry primitives hate Americans, a more fruitful area for Democrats to examine might be why Americans are beginning to hate Democrats.

Germans are primitives? Oh, never mind. Although perhaps we should begin to wonder why Ann Coulter hates half the population, the Democratic half.

©2002 Carl Skutsch. All rights reserved.
All opinions expressed herein are those of the author unless otherwise noted
(and it goes without saying that they make more sense than Coulter's opinions.)

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