En Bush-kritisk konservativs rop i öknen
Paul Craig Roberts, en av de konservativa skribenterna på den invandringsfientliga webbsidan Vdare.com beklagar att den konservativa rörelsen hemfallit åt storstatskonservatism, avgudadyrkan och hat (japp, han skriver verkligen så):
In the ranks of the new conservatives, however, I see and experience much hate. It comes to me in violently worded, ignorant and irrational emails from self-professed conservatives who literally worship George Bush. Even Christians have fallen into idolatry. There appears to be a large number of Americans who are prepared to kill anyone for George Bush.
The Iraqi War is serving as a great catharsis for multiple conservative frustrations: job loss, drugs, crime, homosexuals, pornography, female promiscuity, abortion, restrictions on prayer in public places, Darwinism and attacks on religion. Liberals are the cause. Liberals are against America. Anyone against the war is against America and is a liberal. “You are with us or against us.”
This is the mindset of delusion, and delusion permits of no facts or analysis. Blind emotion rules. Americans are right and everyone else is wrong. End of the debate.
That, gentle reader, is the full extent of talk radio, Fox News, the Wall Street Journal Editorial page, National Review, the Weekly Standard, and, indeed, of the entire concentrated corporate media where noncontroversy in the interest of advertising revenue rules.
Jag betvivlar inte att den Bush-kritiske krigsmotståndaren Roberts erhållit försvarliga mängder hatbrev, och jag delar en del av hans irritation över Bush-regeringens politiska kurs, men Roberts nämner överhuvudtaget inte de arabisk-muslimska terrorattackerna mot USA och det är att utelämna en synnerligen betydande pusselbit.
