Opaque Lucidity

The Script Changes

"You get America out of Iraq and Israel out of Palestine and you'll stop the terrorism," Sheehan declares.

Cindy Sheehan, the woman who is holding a vigil/protest outside President Bush’s ranch in Crawford, Texas, has moved on from her role as the grieving and angry mother of a soldier who died in Iraq last year. Now, she also feels...

comfortable spouting off about US foreign and Israeli domestic policy.

I have run out of sympathy for Sheehan. She has a right to protest the war that killed her son. She even has a right to speak out about American foreign policy. But the only reason anyone gives a damn about Cindy Sheehan is because one of her sons died in Iraq. Without that terrible event, she would be just another middle-aged American woman with uninformed opinions.

Sheehan is being used by the media and by the Left. Do you think it just occurred to her to start making statements about Israel? The linking of Israel’s domestic policies to the continuation of terrorism around the world is the stuff of Michael Moore and his ilk. It reeks of anti-Semitism, something that liberals don’t seem to have a problem with when it furthers their agenda.

Sheehan is taking the advice of those who would grant the schoolyard bully his wishes in the hope that he would leave them alone. Bin Laden and other Al Qaeda members only mention Israel as just one of the reasons they are pursuing the course they are; they also want all of us to become Muslims. I guess that’s just a little side detail.

After 9/11, more than one friend told me that we need to understand why “they hate us so much.” When someone punches you, are you worried about why he hates you? If you’re like me, you’re busy trying to kick his teeth in. If you beat him hard enough, he’ll stop hitting you---and damn his reasoning.

I may be wrong, but something tells me that Cindy Sheehan’s son understood that.