More tales from the Anti-American Front

VANCOUVER, Sept. 1 - - The events of September 11th have not deterred the anti-globalization movement from carrying on their campaigns. But they have changed their attacks from globalization itself to the new war on terrorism-which they see as an extension of the tyranny of globalization anyway.

It has become a new peace movement. They met in Washington last weekend and switched the protest target from the World Bank and International Monetary Fund to America’s war footing. Perhaps they had not heard but the meetings of the World Bank and IMF were cancelled-more evidence that these decadent leftists are just looking for the next best protest.

It really doesn’t matter; the protestor movement has collectivized all the problems in the world and placed the blame upon capitalism, war, Western Civilization, and most importantly the United States.

The protests were renamed the A National March Against War and Racism. They held signs that said things like, "8 million Afghan refugees need food now, not war and terror." They have not been alone, as student campuses worldwide have gotten in on the act.

A Student at the University of Wisconsin wrote a letter to the editor of the student newspaper, the Badger Herald that gets at the heart of the anti-American sentiment today. ”The U.S. government is, without a doubt, one of the most genocidal and murderous political entities of the 20th century. In the name of ruthless capitalism and neo-colonialism, our government has murdered over 500,000 Iraqi children, thousands of Palestinians, and many more throughout the world in places like Latin America and East Timor.”

The arguments of these neo-pacifists are not only untrue but they are ridiculous. Michael Kelly of the Washington Post neatly debunked their arguments last week. “No honest person can pretend that the groups that attacked America will, if let alone, not attack again. Nor can any honest person say that this attack is not at least reasonably likely to kill thousands upon thousands of innocent people. To not fight in this instance is to let the attackers live to attack and murder again; to be a pacifist in this instance is to accept and, in practice, support this outcome.”

The lengths to which these peace zealots will go are dumbfounding. The Washington Post’s Howard Kurtz uncovers the shocking changes in policy at Reuters which has banned the use of the word ‘terrorist”. Kurtz quotes Stephen Jukes, the wire service's global head of news, in an office memo which states, "We all know that one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter and that Reuters upholds the principle that we do not use the word terrorist . . . To be frank, it adds little to call the attack on the World Trade Center a terrorist attack."

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