Christopher G. Adamo: The Burgeoning Alliance Between Leftists and Islamists

In the wake of the information explosion of recent years, Americans can now find any �version� of the news that they like. Press accounts of the same international events are often unrecognizably altered from each other, with no apparent connection to reality. Thus, alarming occurrences are often distorted in order to prevent their significance from becoming apparent to the public at large.

Yet the resulting false sense of security in which some may then choose to bask can suddenly come crashing down before them, as did the World Trade Center towers on September 11, 2001.

Still, not long after the attacks, replays of the towers as they collapsed on thousands of terrified occupants were summarily removed from nightly news broadcasts. And any subsequent terrorist atrocities, such as the videotape of the protracted and gruesome beheading of Nick Berg, have been thoroughly censored and essentially banned from broadcast by the liberal media.

Clearly, little has changed among the American left since it ascended to prominence during the Vietnam era. Back then, brutality was not personified by the genocide of the Soviets, the Communist Khmer Rouge and their Killing Fields, nor the wanton slaughter of Vietnamese by the millions in the wake of the U.S. departure from that nation. Rather, it was singularly characterized by Lieutenant William Calley and the My Lai massacre.

Now, to hear it from liberals, 9-11 was little more than a historical fluke to which the best response may well be indifference. Furthermore, the ensuing terror war has been a singular violation of human rights, defined not by the toppling of indescribable tyrants, but by a few terrorist inmates who were forced to play �dog pile� at the hands of some admittedly perverted U.S. prison guards.

Chris Matthews of the MSNBC �news� program �Hardball,� went so far as to claim that the Islamist monsters of al Qaeda are �not evil,� but merely see things from a �different perspective.� And Matthews is not alone. Among the nation�s major networks and liberal news organizations, such inflammatory concepts as �evil� are reserved for President Bush, Vice-President Dick Cheney, and of course Donald Rumsfeld and Karl Rove.

America is continually subjected to a drumbeat of leftist propaganda, the ultimate purpose of which is to convince the majority of the population that the Iraq war is completely illegitimate and ultimately unwinnable. Therefore, no good news coming out of Iraq can be presented as such, while any and every questionable U.S. action receives blanket coverage and thorough scrutiny for at least as long as it can be portrayed as an enormous �black eye� to the nation.

America must not be deceived as to the real motivation behind such despicable actions. This is not the work of �diligent reporters� who are merely attempting to learn the facts. Rather, they desperately seek America�s military and ideological defeat.

Nor can Democrat politicians claim to �support the troops� and America�s efforts to win the Terror War while grandstanding endlessly at every opportunity in which they believe they can discredit the U.S. military (and consequently, the Bush Administration).

Their latest propaganda ploy involves the spectacle of parading forth anti-war Vietnam Veterans, such as Democrat Congressman Jack Murtha of Pennsylvania, who �righteously� calls for immediate American withdrawal from Iraq. The party of those who spat upon U.S. soldiers as they returned from Southeast Asia now sanctimoniously demands absolute deference to the likes of Murtha in regards to his virtue, his judgment, and his patriotism.

But Murtha reflects the sentiments of the same political class that, to this day, refuses to officially recognize the embarrassing fact that lead hijacker Mohamed Atta was a known threat within this nation�s borders. Can such people then be trusted in any way to assess the extent of international terror networks and how they must be dealt with in order to protect America�s interests?

During World War II, it was through the likes of �Tokyo Rose� that America�s mortal enemies worked to undermine troop morale and destroy its will to continue the fight. But the mouthpieces of militant Islam need not engage in such efforts, since the American left has accepted the responsibility to wage this facet of the war on the home front.

To the degree that they succeed, militant Islam is bolstered in its determination to continue the fight. And that portends further worldwide terrorist strikes on innocent civilians, along with a renewed vigor to slaughter American soldiers on the battlefield.