Will the Left continue to Repeat their Mistakes of the Past

In the communist era we had two groups had helped the communists very much. The follow travelers who were true believers sometimes in the open and sometimes not. There were also the useful idiots. These were people who were not communists but through their actions assisted the communists. We forget about these people because very few people are outright communists in the world today, save Castro and Hugo Chavez.

Today as we get another tape from Osama bin Laden we are reminded of this era. To listen to the rhetroric in many spots he sounds like someone from MoveOn.Org. While I don't believe the people from Moveon for the most part hate America and want to see us destroyed, but their rhetoric plays right into the hands of the Bin Ladens of the world who do want our civilization destroyed. I don't think there will be any fellow travelers in this battle. I can't see any life long lefties converting to Islam, (that would sure cut into their cocktail parties) but their hatred of everything that traditional America believes in plays right into their hands. As we hear more of the tape, think about where you have heard of these speeches before, the American left, both the Democratic party and the Greens and other hard left organizations. (As usual this does not imply that all Democrats or Greens want to see America destroyed. I reference the left. Many democrats are centrsts and not hard left leaning people, just like not all Republicans are conservative. It feels so tedious to always point this out but someone may read this that haven't read other things I have written and not understand what I mean by the left).

We must remember our hatred of a single or multiple pieces of public policy can not get in the way of fighting true evil. Bin Laden just like the Communists and Nazi's before them represent true evil and will use anything to accomplish their aims, and if that means utilizing the rhetoric of poltical organizations to accomplish it they will do it.