“Not in our Name” was a recent banner headline in the official Communist tabloid “Peoples Weekly World,” a publication that maintains far-reaching influence amongst American leftist circles. I assume this because I subscribe to and read “Peoples Weekly World” and, like clockwork; I see their scribblings regurgitated in segments of the mainstream media and even from certain of our elected officials.
By penning the agitprop slogan “Not in our Name” in describing the present crisis, the communists are rejecting the American military response to the World Trade Center attack. This sentiment was hardly derived from anti-war convictions as, in the same breath, these fifth columnists are justifying, with their rhetoric, the violent military attack on New York by the Taliban supported militia. They are, in fact, the only segment in America that is consistently and steadfastly parroting the propaganda line set out by Ben Laden and his Islamic extremists.
The Islamic extremists, in concert with this segment of the left, claim that the attack on America was justified because of our support for Israel, our opposition, along with the UN, to the Baath Socialists in Iraq with their weapons of mass destruction, and our support for states militarily threatened by Iraq. Underlying this casus belli is the insufferably arrogant belief that Americans deserve to die because we are infidels and because of our prosperity and individual freedoms. Our very existence and our success, like that of Israel and other non-Islamic democracies, insult the Islamic extremist belief that the entire planet has to be made to submit to Islam. This vision is virtually identical to the maniacal ambitions of the world leftist movement.
The vulgar nincompoop leftist Noam Chomsky lends aid and comfort to the enemy when he compares the Islamic Holocaust in New York to America’s bombing of a pharmaceutical plant in Khartoum, which was justified by all conventions and customs of international law, as a response to the unprovoked Islamic military attack on American embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam. U. Mass-Amherst Professor Jennie Traschen, typifying the lunatic fringe, responded to students at her College seeking to hang an American flag on campus by stating “It’s a symbol of terrorism and death and fear and destruction and repression.” Bill Clinton, weighing in as a spokesmen for the elite establishment left during his speech at Georgetown University, stated that America got what was coming to it because of our history of slavery and Indian wars.
Criticism of these insane ramblings, which wouldn’t be worth discussing except for the fact that these financially over-stuffed buffoons wield such influence amongst a substantial segment of our useful idiot college students, is typically met with the accusation that the critic is attempting to deny free speech rights. This accusation emanates from those same leftists who feverishly support regimes where no freedom of any type exists. In a nation controlled by the likes of them, in fact, those criticizing the government in the same manner they are presently criticizing our government would be met by a firing squad.
These leftists must be having conniptions over the sudden collapse of the Taliban. Their utterances indicate that they dreamed of a prolonged war, like Vietnam, where they could really mobilize anti-American direct action and have a shot at “transforming” our society in the process. It must be particularly galling to them that crowds in Kabul are chanting pro-American slogans. Maybe Cuba will be next.
From a leftist perspective, America really is acting “Not in our Name” when it vigorously and unapologetically defends the lives and property of its citizens and its national sovereignty by defeating those who would usurp it. American freedom, capitalism, and elected government operating under a Constitution are also, for the leftist, “Not in our Name.” The angering and sad fact is that these same preposterous hypocrites are amongst the greatest beneficiaries of the system that is operating “Not in our Name.”