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April 08, 2005
WMDs: The Left's New McCarthy?
Every so often I marvel at the irony of the fact that the memory of Senator Joseph McCarthy, the infamous communist hunter, has been such an indispensable cudgel for the left. I bet the playing of the McCarthy card is second in effectiveness only to the use of the "racism" charge as a tool to instantly shut down a debate. The actual facts of communist infiltration into US society in the '40s and '50s are irrelevant; the image carefully crafted by Hollywood and the MSM provides a sort of Klingon cloaking device for "progressives" when legit criticism is aimed their way.
Now the left might have a new cudgel.
In a post in The Corner today, Stanley Kurtz writes expresses his relief Saddam is not still in power:
Thank goodness Saddam Hussein's not around to buy North Korean nukes. If we hadn't gone into Iraq, he'd be doing just that. It would be a terrible mistake to forget about the danger of WMD's falling into the hands of terrorists. That was, and is, the greatest danger we face.
The "Bush lied/mislead/rushed-into-war over WMDs" meme has been gold plated and enshrined as the holiest-of-holies in the tabernacle of the left. I sure hope that our failure to find WMDs in Iraq doesn't become the McCarthy card of the war on terror.
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