The depths of the anti-war/anti-American movement
I came across this bit of information via Fox News yesterday:
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Who’s funding the insurgents in Iraq? The list of suspects is long: ex-Baathists, foreign jihadists, and angry Sunnis, to name a few. Now add to that roster hard-core Euroleftists.
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. In the words of one Italian website, Iraq Libero (Free Iraq), the funds are meant for those fighting the occupanti imperialisti. 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.” (more…)
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As I commented to one of my readers concerning Gitmo, a little criticism is actually a healthy thing because I think it brings some good balance to issues of the day. With that being said, I have no problem with those who have major issues with America and our current involvement in Iraq. What I do have a problem with is when opposition turns into something that endangers the lives of our soldiers and innocent civilians.
To bring this issue home to the targeted readers of this site, one of the groups listed on the website mentioned by the excerpt above is the National Black Radical Congress . Now I received an e-mail from this group some time ago telling me about an upcoming conference they were having in the Atlanta area. I didn’t pay that much attention to the e-mail at the time, but this article definitely sheds a lot of light on this group.
Now am I insinuating here that this represents the entire anti-war movement? Of course not. Instead, what I am hoping is that those who do align themselves with this anti-war or anti-American movement need to do some serious soul searching as to how far they are willing to go with their feelings.
