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Fighting terrorism, Soros-style
From time to time, Democrats have put forward various formulas for opposing terrorism, all of them liberal knee-jerk reactions that have nothing to do with the real world problem they purport to solve. Thus House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi has said that the way to defeat terrorism is through (yes, she really said this) “education.” Sen. Kerry, in a remarkable interview in the October 10, 2004 New York Times Magazine, says that the way to defeat terrorism, or at least reduce it to a mere “nuisance,” is through building an international coalition, though he never says what this coalition would actually do about terrorists once it was formed, except perhaps for dealing with them as though they were drug dealers. As far as one can tell from most of Kerry’s own explanations, the coalition itself is the solution. And now billionaire loudmouth George Soros has shared with us his own brilliant strategy. In reply to a question by Ralph Reiland of The American Spectator about how he would fight terrorism, “Mr. Soros stated that we should start by correcting our own behavior, by looking at what we’ve done wrong. One thing he sees as wrong is that George W. Bush is Commander-in-Chief. Another wrong, he explained, is that the United States isn’t yet signed up with the Kyoto treaty or the International Criminal Court in The Hague.” Now think about this for a moment. Soros has called Bush’s war on terrorism an unprecedented and immediate threat to American freedom, and he has compared Bush’s rhetoric to Hitler’s. But what does Soros advocate in place of Bush’s Nazi-like policy? He advocates that the U.S. sign an international treaty requiring it to cut its industrial production by a set percentage, and that it join up with an international court whose main purpose is to hamstring the United States itself. Thus the U.S. is the problem in the war against terrorism, the “civilized” world with its internationalizing structures is the solution, and the U.S. must simply put its problematic self out of existence by subordinating itself to those international structures. Now we can understand why Soros sees Bush as the equivalent of Hitler. It’s not because Bush has done anything objectively Hitler-like. It’s because Bush has not surrendered to the utopian globalist policy favored by Soros, a policy which would have absolutely no bearing on fighting terrorism except to weaken or destroy our ability to do so. That is what Soros really means by Hitler-like.
It’s the oldest and most tired political song of the last century: if you’re not with the left, you’re a Nazi. But now the old song is more sinister than ever. Now it goes: if you don’t surrender your national autonomy to the global world order, you’re a Nazi. Why do we have to go on listening to these people? And who will rid us of this meddlesome billionaire? Email entry |