September 19, 2002

Smoking Them Out of their

Smoking Them Out of their Caves(continued)

Remove that flag pin, someone out there is angry at us!

Thanks to Andrew Sullivanfor picking up Sen. Diane Feinstein's comments Mercury News

The statement deserves to be circulated around the blogosphere for all to contemplate.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., just back from Europe, said she detected growing opposition to the United States among America's allies. "The driver of a lot of this animus," she said, "is the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. To leave this unresolved and to attack an Arab country is going to be viewed as an attack on the Arab world." She said the anti-American sentiment was so strong that she felt it personally. "As an American, I have always been proud," Feinstein said. Referring to her U.S. flag pin, she said, "I was embarrassed to wear it."

Ideas have consequences. Postmodernism, deconstruction, multiculturalism radiate out from academia and have become part of the mindset of politicians like Ms. Feinstein. Ms. Feinstein is not even the most liberal member of Congress, yet she automatically assumes that if the United States is the target of animus we must be doing something shameful. Should we not be proud of our support for the one democracy, Israel, in a sea of totalitarian terrorists and antisemites? In the war of ideas, Dianne Feinstein's idea of defending ourselves is to surrender and throw herself on the mercy of our foes.