Enlightened Hate

They profess to hate hate itself. That, for a start, indicates necessarily a more comfortable relationship with the emotion of hate than they generally acknowledge. But this is all for the purpose of constructing a have-your-cake-and-eat-it-too loophole, in which they can both hate hate, and yet may indulge, freely and without shame, in the emotion of hatred, so long as they can contrive a pretext for it.

Take some time today to read the rest of this excellent article by Ace of Spades HQ.  If you can stomach it, read the referenced opinion column by Paul Krugman.

I think 9/11 is more uncomfortable for liberals tan conservatives because they don't know how to mourn.  They don't want to accept that men - motivated by a jihadist religion in which their God demands and rewards the spilling of innocent blood of the infidels - committed a great act of evil.  Evil.  And in their "mourning", they cry, "We are all victims!" and call "barbarian" and "terrorist" the retiree attending a Tea Party rally.
To Krugman, Bernie Kerik, Rudy Giuliani, and - of course - George W. Bush are villains who "cashed in" on 9/11.  And yet, a movie glorifying Obama's "role" in the take out of Osama bin Laden, a movie for which the White House gave special access to classified files of the raid, and that is scheduled to be released to theaters rights before the 2012 elections, is not "cashing in."

I think people like Krugman cannot face the pictures of the dead, or of people like George W. Bush - who, very simply, gave up playing golf in 2002 because he did not think it was approrpiate while American troops were at war - because they act as mirrors and Krugman sees his "conscience of a liberal" to be nothing more that wretchedness.

Updated!  Paul Krugman receives another award for his insight and writing, one that is well-deserved.