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Thursday, July 07, 2005
Solidarity
I guess solidarity means different things to different people. At Captain's Quarters, it means first separating the American right from the American left, then declaring alliance with our friends in Britain:
We are all Britons today.
When we say that, we don't mean it to imply that this is conditional on Britain engaging in self-flagellation to maintain our sympathy. We don't mean that we expect our friends to simply remain victims to retain our friendship and support. We don't mean that the people who have been attacked should withdraw into a corner in order to somehow earn our tears.
And you've got to divide the allies up, too:
Let's remember, though, that the primary reason why the conservative party lost the 2004 election was that they misled Spaniards in a gruesome attempt to politicize the March 11 attacks:
THE party in power in Spain at the time of the Madrid train bombings under-estimated threats from Islamic militants and responded to the massacre by misleading voters to try to salvage an imminent election, a parliamentary panel said yesterday.
Two days after the attack in March last year, Islamic militants claimed responsibility, saying they had acted on behalf of al-Qaeda in revenge for the then prime minister Jose Maria Aznar's deployment of peacekeeping troops to Iraq.
The report said that, after the attack, Mr Aznar's administration followed up with "tendentious information", by insisting the armed Basque separatist group ETA was to blame, even after evidence of an Islamic link mounted.
I want to say this again. In truth, 98% of Americans are united in principle in the war on terror. We disagree on tactics, but not the goal. You've got 1% on the far left who will oppose all federal action until the entire Middle West is ceded back to Native Americans (for starters). You've got 1% on the far right who seek to divide this country for partisan purposes. The voices on the left have largely been ignored. It's time the voices on the right are ignored, as well.
We should build a community around the combined resolve to oppose terrorism. It's time to reject those who seek to divide American from American and Briton from Spaniard.
