Var finns den rumsrena vänstern?

Christopher Hitchens, en av USA:s ledande vänsterintellektuella, skriver i Slate om att vi alla, och särskilt människor på vänsterkanten, borde engagera oss i Iraks öde lite mer. För Irak handlar ju om mer än Bush:

How can so many people watch this as if they were spectators, handicapping and rating the successes and failures from some imagined position of neutrality? Do they suppose that a defeat in Iraq would be a defeat only for the Bush administration? The United States is awash in human rights groups, feminist organizations, ecological foundations, and committees for the rights of minorities. How come there is not a huge voluntary effort to help and to publicize the efforts to find the hundreds of thousands of ”missing” Iraqis, to support Iraqi women’s battle against fundamentalists, to assist in the recuperation of the marsh Arab wetlands, and to underwrite the struggle of the Kurds, the largest stateless people in the Middle East? Is Abu Ghraib really the only subject that interests our humanitarians?

Michael Moynihan (Stockholm Spectator Blog), som är rejält trött på DN Kulturs alla tyrannkramare, undrar: ”So where is Sweden’s anti-theocrat, anti-terror, pro-democracy left?” Frågan är retorisk och svaret enkelt: Den finns helt enkelt inte. Eftersom den svenska vänstern i första hand är antiamerikansk har den förlorat allt perspektiv på vad som pågår i Mellersta Östern.