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I don’t think so people.

So why do people bicker and so forth? Because that is how humans are. Civilization is no cure for it. Neither is wealth, power, or knowledge.

It is not a question of which is more dangerous or which is more powerful. There have been numerous times in our past that the strong fortification that could not be breached by the besieging barbarian army outside, had a traitor inside that was weaker than both yet still opened the gates for the barbarians. Weakness and strength are not the ultimate deciding factors for victory or defeat.

“The War On Terror Is Just a Bumper Sticker.” Sound familiar? The real enemy is the creator of those bumper stickers, the evil power structure within America itself. Is it any wonder that we on the right view the leftists as deeply unAmerican, and hateful of America?

To be fair: How many of us on the right view the left as a worse threat to America than the Islamic jihadists? Mother Sheehan, the NY Times, the NBC media conglomerate, Hollywood liberals, the vast cadre of leftists professors in the universities… I hope a huge majority of us on the right view the jihadists as the worst enemy by far; but I’m not certain that that is true of us.

I view our left vs right struggles as internal squabbling, and I don’t understand how we cannot compromise, how we cannot vote every so often and accept the resultant American meandering of vision, confident that in the end we will eventually get it right, together. And then return to our endless internal squabbling.

I identify with these two young men. Before 9-11, my main concern was with the existing social order, and how resistant it was to change. I was more of a populist and individual-rights guy than a socialist, but the evils were of those in the power structure. Then came the wake up call of 9-11.

I realized: “There are people out there who want to kill me! Who want to kill tens of millions like me!” I had thought the world was civilized except for a few dark alleys; now I thought the world was still mostly savagery, and civilization is fragile, always in danger of being swamped by tides of savagery throughout this world that remains mostly uncivilized.

These two young men rejected the lesson of 9-11. (As has ‘G’.) That’s their right.

For them the true enemy is still the internal power structure, “The Man”. And since the enemy of my enemy is my friend, they embrace what the radical jihadists offer: a severe shaking of the enemy power structure. They are blind to the threat of the Islamic jihadists and they will minimize that threat constantly. They are blind to the fact that the Islamic jihadists stand for EVERYTHING that leftists oppose.

The leftists should see, in the radical Islamist jihadists, the personification of every evil that has ever existed in leftist philosophy. EVERY evil! But they cannot see it. Because the jihadists are the enemy of the “true enemy”, and therefore the jihadists are their friends.

Greg, slavery was fought for by Democrats (Lincoln was a Republican), Nazism was creed of the German National Socialist Party, and authoritarian and fascist regimes have been comprised most notably of Socialists and Communists. Just which conservatives do you think are evil exactly?