Conservatives had no problem with President Obama ordering Navy Seals to go in to Pakistan to kill Osama Bin Laden. But what about the Democrats? The Left-Wing of the Democrat Party? The anti-war protestors? The mainstream media? Did all these “Bush is evil” folks temporarily lose their principles in a poker game, or did they just receive new talking points? Talk about turning on a dime! A Democrat President, using data obtained in part from enhanced interrogation techniques, orders a kill mission without notifying the Pakistanis and without involving NATO or the UN. Did the “read them their rights” liberals publicly denounce their citizenship and move to Canada en masse? No. Most are ecstatic. Some danced in the streets!
Not long ago these folks were clamoring to impeach former President Bush and to imprison CIA interrogators. But with a Democrat in the White House the anti-war fervor that was “blowin’ in the wind” during the Bush administration has become as passé as a feathered boa. The “Women in Black” quietly found better things to do on Fridays than demonstrate at the Post Office, and those letters to the ICO denouncing “war-mongering” dried up faster than frog piss in the Mojave. Yet the Iraqi conflict continues and President Obama has “surged” additional troops into Afghanistan while stepping up drone attacks in Pakistan. Did I mention that the President allowed himself to be dragged into an embarrassing “let’s kill Qaddafi” stalemate in Libya? (But we don’t talk about that.)
Given these Jekyll/Hyde behaviors by Democrats, you can’t blame conservatives for wondering whether the Left’s much-celebrated anti-war protest movement was not so much about war as it was about politics. Imagine that! Are we all conservatives now? It seems a fair question.
Jim Littlejohn
