The world through Rosen-colored glasses

Ruth Rosen starts today's column by praising an illegal immigrant who marched with her last weekend to oppose term limits for Saddam Hussein. She goes on to praise her kindred spirit Europeasers

In European cities, millions of our traditional allies poured into the streets and said, with pride and defiance, Yes, we are Old Europe. Our land is soaked with blood: we've known war, we've been bombed, and we want to prevent the deaths of Iraqi civilians.

Earth to Ruthie: The only time any of these Europeans have been bombed in the last 80 years is when they chose to appease tyranny, as they did in the 1930s, during the Cold War, and again today. And it doesn't sound like any of this weekend's marchers actually asked any Iraqi civilians for input.

As I watched these global protests on television, I couldn't help but remember the days and weeks that followed Sept. 11, 2001. I was in Norway when the terrorists slammed planes into the World Trade Center's Twin Towers and the Pentagon. The grief and sorrow expressed by Europeans were deeply moving. In Oslo, families with children covered blocks surrounding the American Embassy with heaps of flowers and mounds of toys. On a wire fence, they strung notes to survivors, pledging support, expressing their solidarity with the American people.

What a difference 17 months make. So much squandered goodwill. Today, tens of millions of people view America as an arrogant bully.

Quisling's children can keep their teddy bears. If they're not going to offer their support and solidarity to help us get rid of the menace that caused 9/11, then their goodwill isn't worth a bucket of warm piss.

Rosen even praises decaying Senator and former Klansman Robert Byrd (now there's a guy who knows the difference between right and wrong)

In only the space of two short years," Sen. Robert Byrd said on the Senate floor on Feb. 12, "this reckless and arrogant administration has initiated policies which may reap disastrous consequences for years."

as opposed to, say, the Carter and Reagan administrations, (when Byrd was Senate Majority Leader) which watered the seeds of today's Islamist threat by standing down in the face of terrorism.

Some might say that the Ruth Rosens of the world are silly and ineffectual idiots, so why bother with them? Yes, they may be ineffectual to defend their own countries and freedoms. But they are at least useful to Saddam Hussein, whom they've inspired to defy the UN weapons inspectors.

Posted by Stefan Sharkansky at February 20, 2003 01:08 PM