Reutersgate and Armageddon

As per Luther's post below notes—along with Little Green Footballs' now nationally recognized work in unearthing Reuters' cynical lack of editorial control over its "stringers" (who are clearly Hezbollah Hacks)—the reporting of war, along with the resultant "civilian casualties" (which only occur on the Lebanese side of the border), prove the dishonesty, banality, and self-loathing of the MSM and the so-called intellectual classes. When the fashionable Communism/Socialism they embraced in their private clubs was abruptly terminated by the fall of the Berlin Wall, having been recognized at last by all for the fraud that it was and is, the intellectual left swiftly disintegrated into a dangerously cynical cadre of fascist-lovers. Their bizarre self-loathing is now inviting the Middle-East's Islamo-Nazis to step in and take over where the caliphate left off roughly a millennium ago. How they figure out this new universe will be better than capitalism is beyond me.

Case in point: Joe Lieberman, an honest Connecticut Senator of the Democratic persuasion, though a bit too liberal for this Virginian, was dealt a knockout-punch in yesterday's Connecticut primary by the current generation of blind, anti-war freaks, bred and indoctrinated by the spoiled new leftist Boomers who sired them. (The Commie Boomers themselves obviously helped in this lynching-purging of the ideologically impure.)

Lieberman's sin? The senator had the bad taste, of course, to side with George W. Bush on a single issue, the Global War on Terror (GWOT, aka WWIII, aka WWIV), thus provoking a massive outburst of Bush Derangement Syndrome at the polling places. Joe, of course, otherwise has about a 95% liberal rating on everything else, but no matter. The lefty nihilists supporting Lieberman's far-left opponent Ned Lamont (another ultra-leftie who is somehow authentic while being richer than Crassus, not to mention you or me) decided to chuck him out of the party and revive the Democrats' McGovernite Wing. You know, the one that favored defeat over victory in Vietnam and later scored a Pyrrhic victory by ousting the overwhelmingly re-elected Richard Nixxon over his coverup of a petty theft. So now, a generation later, we get to watch the 'Rats try to subvert yet another re-elected Republican president's attempt to save the United States from yet another onslaught by the world's latest crop of ideological thugs. Makes a guy want to sing that old refrain, "When will they ever learn?" Except that that's from a lefty song.

Let's step back and observe two things. First of all, Lieberman's likely to win the election as an independent anyway—one who is no longer particularly beholden to the party that abandoned him. So Lamont's, and the left's, "victory" won't last very long, aside from today's MSM headlines proclaiming Republican disaster this November.

But let's also pause to get back to our original topic, the Middle East, and the triumph of the propagandists. We are being temporarily lulled by the moonbat left into forgetting our little friends in Iran. You know, the ones who refused to respond to the UN's halfhearted hissy fit last month, re: their "peaceful" nuclear weapons program. The ones who promised us they themselves would choose the date of the response, and it would be August 22.

If we didn't learn in the 1930s to take the ravings of megalomaniacs seriously, we found out the hard way first in 1938 and then in 1941, as the Germans and the Japanese proceeded to rip the world apart to make it safer for their own special brand of murderous bigotry. I am now wondering if we'll need to find it out the hard way again in 2006.

The ravings of Iran's current "president" may be just that: ravings. But there's a better than even chance that he and the mad mullahs who support him have something nasty in store for all of us later this month. Certainly John Batchelor thinks so in today's New York Sun. Addressing this country's historic weakness when it comes to international proactivity, Batchelor observes that:

What this all means to me today is that America was expectant of the crisis that fell on December 7, 1941; and yet America remained reluctant to say out loud that war was unavoidable, inevitable, already under way — the nation holding back as if the obvious war plans in Berlin and Tokyo were going to vanish like a lightning storm. When the Japanese fleet did maul our Pacific fleet, the Roosevelt administration was rattled and the public was grim. It will be the same for us when this premonitory waiting lifts and the main action begins, both frightful and logical. The Lebanese Front, the Iraqi Front, the Afghan and Kashmir Fronts, or the Haifa blitz will no more solve themselves than did the China-Burma Front, the North African Front, the Atlantic Front, the London blitz of 65 years ago. Who will publish the last magazine before the day of infamy comes again?

Who indeed? Is anyone in the MSM game for blaming George W. Bush on The Day After? Watch them attempt just that.

We as a nation need to start taking seriously what is going on in the Middle East. Two factions of Islamofascist craziness—the Sunni-Wahhabi flavor and the Shia-Khomenei flavor—are busily planning an exciting sequel to 9/11 in one or more places around the world. If not on August 22, their igniting of Armageddon will happen sooner or later. I have long feared that it would take another cataclysmic, spectacular event, perhaps even larger than 9/11 and far more dramatic, to silence the death-wishing moonbats of the international left—embodied in this country by the suicidally cynical Gramscian Marxists who now control the Democratic party, the media, academia, and the arts—who regard George Bush as the ultimate enemy and the worst embodiment of evil that the universe has ever seen. When this horrific event does occur, the idiotarian left may very well at last be silenced forever. I'm confident this will happen. But I'm no longer sure that a lot of us won't have to lose our lives in our own backyards to win this political argument for once and for all.

HazZzMat advises the few, the proud, our readers, to be ever more skeptical these days when it comes to evaluating the truth component in what is reported and photographed by the MSM as the "news." It's not meant to inform. It's only meant to make sure you're sleeping when the Islamofascists reach over to turn out your lights forever. The idiotarian left, exemplified by the Kos Kids, hates and loathes itself and has turned suicidal. And they want to take you with them.