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February 25, 2006
European Anarcho-Losers
Cliff May highlights (or should it be lowlights?) a report in US News and World Report on who is funding the insurgents in Iraq. In addtion to the usual suspects (al-Qaeda jihadists, ex-Saddamites) it seems the hard core Euro-Leftists are doing their "part":
Turns out that far-left groups in western Europe are carrying on a campaign dubbed Ten Euros for the Resistance, offering aid and comfort to the car bombers, kidnappers, and snipers trying to destabilize the fledgling Iraq government. [...] The groups are an odd collection, made up largely of Marxists and Maoists, sprinkled with an array of Arab emigres and aging, old-school fascists, according to Lorenzo Vidino, an analyst on European terrorism based at The Investigative Project in Washington, D.C. "It's the old anticapitalist, anti-U.S., anti-Israel crowd," says Vidino, who has been to their gatherings, where he saw activists from Austria, Denmark, Germany, and Italy. "The glue that binds them together is anti-Americanism." The groups are working on an October conference to further support "the Iraqi Resistance." A key goal is to expand backing for the insurgents from the fringe left to the broader antiwar and antiglobalization movements.
Emphases mine. Before the riots by French Muslims last fall and the more recent anti-cartoon riots, I would have said that these far Leftists had a pretty good chance of succeeding at expanding their backing to more mainstream anti-war groups. Marxists after all have traditionally been expert at using more mainstream groups as fronts for their revolutionary purposes.
But now I wonder if the odd haven't shifted a little. Have the riots awakened the Europeans to the danger of Islamofascism? Or has the systemic political correctness been entrenched too long?
There's no doubt, though, that there are many Europeans (and Americans too) who would gouge out their own eyes before they would credit the Bush administration. In fact I'm sure there are a lot of people who are reflexively against US interests regardless of who's in the White House.
(I heard Bush-hater par excellance Keith Olberman denigrate in passing the Dubai ports deal--never mind that it's the Right who is mainly up in arms; Jimmy Carter endorsed it for crying out loud. I suspect that there are only two thing Bush could do that Olberman would appreciate: resign, or hang himself.)
So it's no real surprise that the Euro-Lefty deadenders are supporting the head-choppers. The interesting question is what drive these anarcho-losers. More on that soon.
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