DOES THE LEFT CARE ANYMORE?

It strikes me that the liberal motivation to cast all of its policy arguments as arguments about who cares the most is not going to wash with respect to Iraq. The left often tries to quash debate by exclaiming "but we care about (insert helpless group here)." But whom do they care about when skipping class, cranking Lennon and shouting Lenin? Certainly not the women and children of Iraq. Twelve years of sanctions and Saddam's diversion of oil revenue to palace construction have killed tens of thousands of children. The left wants more talk and more containment, which will continue the slow, painful deaths from starvation and lack of adequate medical care (one-legged al-Qaeda leaders still get their care from Baghdad General). More inspections and more time for Saddam to operate his torture chambers, to literally shred his enemies and rape their children, is what the left is fighting for now. So, if the left cannot argue that they care more, what exactly is their argument? Perhaps the left has adopted a Pat Buchananesque isolationism -- that Iraq children are not worth American blood. I suppose they could simply be racist. They don't mind saving the white population of Kosovo or the black populations of Somalia or Haiti, but God forbid they be asked to help dem Ay-Rabs! No, I don't think that is it, either. The only thing that can truly be driving the left to oppose the war, if not isolationism or racism, is good old-fashioned anti-Americanism. That's right. They are un-Patriotic and Anti-American. And they don't give a damn about the Iraqi people. The left, once intellectually stimulating and worthy opposition, have become pathetic and pitiful. No wonder Sen. Moynihan is in critical condition.