Storm Track Appeasement: How He Longs for the Good Old Days!

From The Gathering Storm

Another useful idiot appeaser spoke at The Independent. Patrick Cockburn has reported extensively from Iraq, Afghanistan and Jordan. Here, he whines how the 'war on terror' has fuelled resentment of the West and brought new levels of death and destruction.

He starts with the usual lament on how the day a Briton was shot and killed in Jordan while visiting some Roman ruins was another dark day in the ‘war on terror’.

He then goes on to say:

I have spent most of my time since 2001 in Afghanistan and Iraq. The reason for the rise of radical Islam is foreign occupation. Iraq had a secular tradition. Fanatical Islamic groups made little headway under Saddam Hussein not only because he persecuted them but because they had little popular support.

You don’t get a lot of popular support from the dead or those in fear of t heir death, Mr. Cockburn. But since you live in a country that allows peaceful dissent, you think it exists everywhere in your PC multicultural world.

At the end of 2001 I was able to stroll through the streets of Kabul and Kandahar without fear of being attacked. I drove between the two cities in a taxi. The same was true in Baghdad under Saddam Hussein and during the first months of the occupation. In 2003 I drove down to Basra in southern Iraq and up to Mosul in the far north without incident. If I tried to repeat any of these journeys in Iraq or Afghanistan today I would certainly be killed.

Oh, how he longs for the good ol’ days when the Taliban was in control of Afghanistan chopping off heads, terrorizing women, blowing up priceless Buddhist statues – and when SH was murdering hundreds of thousands of his fellow countrymen and using lethal gas on the Kurds.

He seems to miss those days. He ends with the usual Liberal leftist rant.

The real reason of the increasing violence in the Middle East is the return to imperial control and foreign occupation half a century after the European colonial empires were broken up. This is the fuel for Islamic militancy.

He and his other fellow useful idiots are blind to real truth. The Islamists are on the march and when they get to his city, he can lament the days when he could walk down to his local movie theater and watch some R rated film and not get killed by the morals police.