The mindlessness is unbearable. Amnesty
International tells us that we must “fight the Muslim ban” because Trump’s
bigotry is wrecking lives. Anthony Dimaggio at CounterPunch says Trump should
be impeached because his Islamophobia is a threat to the Constitution. This is
not to single out these two as the mindlessness is everywhere among those whose
worldview is defined by Identity Politics.
One might think that Amnesty International
should be fighting against the Bush/Cheney/Obama regime wars that have produced
the refugees by killing and displacing millions of Muslims. For example, the
ongoing war that Obama inflicted on Yemen results in the death of one Yemeni
child every 10 minutes, according to UNICEF. Where is Amnesty International?
Clearly America’s wars on Muslims wreck far
more lives than Trump’s ban on immigrants. Why the focus on an immigration ban
and not on wars that produce refugees? Is it because Obama is responsible for
war and Trump for the ban? Is the liberal/progressive/left projecting Obama’s
monstrous crimes onto Trump? Is it that we must hate Trump and not Obama?
Immigration
is not a right protected by the US Constitution. Where was Dimaggio when in the
name of “the war on terror” the Bush/Obama regime destroyed the civil liberties
guaranteed by the US Constitution? If Dimaggio is an American citizen, he
should try immigrating to the UK, Germany, or France and see how far he gets.
The easiest and surest way for the Trump
administration to stop the refugee problem, not only for the US but also for
Europe and the West in general, is to stop the wars against Muslim countries
that his predecessors started. The enormous sums of money squandered on
gratuitous wars could instead be given to the countries that the US and NATO
have destroyed. The simplest way to end the refugee problem is to stop
producing refugees. This should be the focus of Trump, Amnesty, and
Dimaggio.
Is everyone too busy hating to do anything sensible?
It is very disturbing that the
liberal/progressive/left prefers to oppose Trump than to oppose war. Indeed,
they want a war on Trump. How does this differ from the Bush/Obama war on
Muslims?
The liberal/progressive/left is
demonstrating a mindless hatred of the American people and the President that
the people chose. This mindless hatred can achieve nothing but the discrediting
of an alternative voice and the opening of the future to the least attractive
elements of the right-wing.
The liberal/progressive/left will end up
discrediting all critics, thereby empowering those to whom the
liberal/progressive/left are most opposed.
Paul Craig Roberts, a former Assistant Secretary of the
US Treasury and former associate editor of the Wall Street Journal, has been
reporting shocking cases of prosecutorial abuse for two decades. A new edition
of his book, The Tyranny of Good Intentions, co-authored
with Lawrence Stratton, a documented account of how americans lost the
protection of law, has been released by Random House. Visit his website.
