A former liberal asks a question: Who Will Be Responsible for the American Dead?
Here's the answer from that same former liberal, David Horowitz:
[L]iberals will be responsible when the next bomber actually succeeds in killing Americans. Liberals have fought the very idea that we are at war (and should use security measures appropriate in wartime) although our enemies have declared war on us. Liberals have fought to close the Guantanamo Bay holding center and to release its terrorists back onto the battlefield.
Liberals have fought to deny us the basic security techniques — harsh interrogation measures, military tribunals, terrorist profiling (which would focus scarce security resources on Muslims and not on the hundreds of millions of ordinary citizens who are traveling to do business and visit families, including for example, elderly Christians confined to wheelchairs whose prophet preached love rather than war.)
Liberals have advocated and pursued a diplomacy of apology and appeasement whose effect is to encourage our adversaries to have contempt for us and to deny support to the brave dissenters in the Muslim world who are struggling for their freedom.
The left has much to be said for it. There's nothing wrong with idealism, hope, or love of civil liberties.
But America and the West are under attack. Too much squeamishness in our own defense will get many innocents killed.
There is a time for peace, and there is a time to knock heads. Guess which time it is?
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