Mathews' Perspectivism in Canada

MSNBC ratings-challenged ranting and shouting punditChris Mathews told a sympathetic audience in the People's Republic of Canada that:

"The period between 9/11 and Iraq was not a good time for America. There wasn't a robust discussion of what we were doing,"

"If we stop trying to figure out the other side, we've given up. The person on the other side is not evil -- they just have a different perspective."

The article characterizes the rest of Mathews' talk as "Bush squandered an opportunity to unite the world against terrorism and instead made decisions that have built up worldwide animosity against his administration."

Yeah, Chris, those terrorist suicide bombers aren't evil, "they just have a different perspective."

Of course, that kind of bantamweight relativism goes down well in a country which has abdicated any serious role in international relations---outside of a UN presence among the kleptocrats of that disorganized muddle. One of that country's senior diplomats, a fellow named Armstrong, recently got figuratively frog-marched out of the august corridors of Turtle Bay for incompetence and peculation far beyond the UN norm.

Coincidentally, the UN voted Canada the world's most pleasant habitat for those who want to merely exist, or some such award.

Yes, Mathews overlooks or forgets that France had agreed to support an invasion of Iraq under UN auspices and then famously blindsided Colin Powell when brilliantined stick-insect de Villepin held a press conference just before the Security Council meeting and denounced the American Plan and said that Frogland would oppose it by all means at its disposal.

Of course, Mathews doesn't know or care that there is evidence of a pipeline from Saddam through his half-brother Ambassador to the UN in Geneva to the French elitist poofs of lots of untraceable bank deposits, gold in diplomatic pouches, and other goods in return for Charlatan-in-Chief Chirac's support. Saddam had been one of Chirac's mentors ever since his visit to France in the '70s when Junior Minister Shh-iraq was his guide to nuclear installations in France.

Of course, the French were building a nuclear reactor in Iraq, the famous Osirak facility that the prescient Israelis exploded to smithereens in 1981.

All that perspective is beyond a cheap-shot artist like Mathews, who famously did not attend college, but was picked up by Tip O'Neill when noticed as a member of the Capitol Police force in DC.

To show his wide intellectual gravitas, Mathews had a column in that highbrow trend-setter and opinion molder the S.F. Chronicle, a paper whose importance on the US scene is demonstrated by its 16% subscription loss over the last reporting period.

There was a "robust discussion" of what we were doing after 9/11, Chris, you just weren't a part of it.

What you are a part of is the dwindling band of partisan cheap-shotters whose alignment with leftist publications overseas and in the Great White North keeps any traction from developing for support of US soldiers in Iraq.

"No fault on the Left" is the old Marxist mantra and psychological warfare on the Left has contributed to the hemorrhaging of support for the War in Iraq.

Dr. Zawahiri sent a letter from Pakistan intercepted by US intel to his Al-Qaeda colleagues in the Middle East that began: "God in his mercy has created no more cowardly race than the Americans who oppose us in our drive toward a Khalifate."

Zawahiri is only half right. Mathews and his cohort of cowards fits Dr. Z's portrait, but luckily we have about 200 million vertebrates in the US and only 100 million noisy degenerates without a notochord.

And next time you lactate in public, Chris, do it in the USA!