We took a great majority of the United States by force, and according to the way the author thinks, we should pack our bags and return that as well. Never let it be said that liberals will not do what it takes to make our enemies happy. Instead of holding our ground, we should just “give back” Guantanamo to Cuba. According to the views expressed by the author (Alex Keyssar, who is the Stirling Professor of History and Social Policy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard), if it makes our enemies happy, then we should do it. I have no problem making the assumption that Mr. Keyssar also believes we should pull out of Iraq, Afghanistan, and anywhere else where our enemies might be getting mad at the fact that we’re there. After all, if they’re angry, we should probably do our best to immediately apologize, and send over Koran-shaped brownies with chewy Jihadi morsels in the middle. A happy terrorist is a good terrorist who will undoubtely not attack us… until they find another reason to scapegoat the United States as an evil empire. By my calculations, that should take five or ten minutes, after which the liberals will be screaming for us to immediately stop breathing as to not infect the world with right-wing Christian oxygen.

But maybe I’m just overreacting. I should take a look at the bigger picture, the one where it is a fact that Alex Keyssar is the Stirling Professor of History and Social Policy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. At the same time, he is the author of The Right to Vote: the Contested History of Democracy in the United States, a book which one reviewer said “This is a book that will make you angry. If you are a conservative, this book should make you feel very guilty.” Just reading those two sentences makes me want to give up red meat and switch to wood and grass-dew, while hoping for a slow death to repay the enemies of America for all of the turmoil I have put them through in my years on this planet.

There is a question that begs for an answer: Is liberalism a mental disease? I do not believe that liberalism itself is a mental disease, per say, but the root cause of liberal paranoia is something that needs to be examined. You can easily classify their frame of mind as blatant anti-Americanism. In fact, it’s hard to object to. While the mantra of the liberal left is “dissent is patriotic,” as well as their claim that they act they way they do because they love the country so much, a quick breakdown of their activities shows you that using lines such as that is nothing more than the act of putting lipstick on a pig. Saying that you love your country and are willing to sell it out in order to teach it a lesson, or tear it down to the point that it empowers the enemies of the country while systematically crushing the esteem of the citizen of the country is a parallel of a tactic used by child abusers, spousal abusers, and torturers. Child abusers claim they are hitting a child in order to teach it a lesson, and to keep it (the child) from performing a certain act again. Spousal abusers hit their wife (or husband) in order to keep them in check, and a torturer will break down the will of the person they are holding captive in order to get them to give up. In almost all of these cases, the word “love” is tossed in by the abuser, and the claim of doing it out of love for the person they are abusing is the fuel for their fire.

If someone can tell me how beating the will out of America in an effort to see it fail is helping it in any way, feel free to leave it in the comments section.

Noteworthy - 6/12/05: JimK has a great example of anti-Americanism in full effect. He takes note of the hypocrisy associated with the so-called Koran abuse and how the same people who literally rise in support of the Islamic extremists say nothing when a group of them are caught on film urinating on an American flag. The excuse, as always, is that in some way or another America and/or the American flag somehow brought it upon itself by simply existing.