http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/04/time_fights_carbon_emissions_m.html
April 22, 2008
Time Fights Carbon Emissions; Military Fights Evil
By Dennis Prager
The state of the liberal mind is on display on this week's cover of Time magazine.
The already notorious cover takes the iconic photograph of U.S. Marines planting the American flag on Iwo Jima and substitutes a tree for the flag. Why Time's editors did this explains much about contemporary liberalism.
The first thing it explains is that liberals, not to mention the left as a whole, stopped fighting evil during the Vietnam War. As I wrote in my last column, whereas liberals had led the fight against Nazism before and during World War II, and against Communism after the War, the liberal will to fight Communism, the greatest organized evil of the post-War world, collapsed during the Vietnam War. The Vietnam War did to American liberals what World War I did to most Europeans -- it rendered them anti-war rather than anti-evil.
That is why liberals have gone AWOL in the fight against Islamic totalitarianism. As during the post-Vietnam Cold War, when liberals fought anti-Communists much more than they fought Communists, they fight anti-Islamists much more than they fight Islamists. Thus, Democrats routinely dismiss the Bush administration's talk about the threat of Islamic terror as "scare tactics."
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Years from now, Time's cover will be regarded as another silly media-induced fear. But, as with Time's 1974 article warning its readers about "another ice age" and its many articles on the threat of heterosexual AIDS in America, Time will just let public amnesia deal with credibility problems. Until then, however, one fact remains: Today, conservatives fight evil and liberals fight carbon emissions. That's what this week's cover of Time is about.
Originally posted by zeeblebotLiberals don't fight evil, they embrace it and give it a new name. For example: Abortion -- Freedom of Choice, Sodomite -- Gay, Liberal -- Progressive, etc., etc.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/04/time_fights_carbon_emissions_m.html
April 22, 2008
Time Fights Carbon Emissions; Military Fights Evil
By Dennis Prager
The state of the liberal mind is on display on this week's cover of Time magazine.
The already notorious cover takes the iconic photograph of U.S. Marines planting the American ...[text shortened]... smiss the Bush administration's talk about the threat of Islamic terror as "scare tactics."
