Cindy Sheehan and the Rest of the "Ugly Americans"

There’s another way to look at the anti-war protesters in this country. After reading about some of the comments that this group of misguided, useful idiots of the left have made today at their shameful protest at the nation’s capital , (on a day when yet another hurricane threatens the livelihood of fellow Americans), here, it occurred to me that these are the "ugly Americans" that we here often hear about from citizens of European nations.

"Ugly Americans" are those Americans overseas, either on vacation, or working in country who start fights in bars proclaiming the superiority of being an American over that of being a citizen of whatever country that they happen to be visiting in.

"Ugly Americans" are those Americans who, prior to WWII, didn’t think we should get involved in Hitler’s threat to Europe. These Americans were isolationists who could care less about the horrible plight of millions of Jews in Hitler’s gas chambers and concentration camps. In fact, these are the Americans who were more than happy to make a boat of Jewish refugees seeking safe asylum in the U.S. from Hitler’s torture chambers turn around and go back toward the hideous fate awaiting them rather than "soil our shore with these people".

Thank goodness the good Americans out numbered the selfish ugly Americans. Those good Americans who are often refered to today as "America's Greatest Generation" were willing to pay the sacrifical cost necessary to ensure the liberty of the nations of Europe and the destruction of the Nazi threat to their freedom.

Fast forward to today.

Cindy Sheehan, along with the rest of the useful idiots who marched in protest today at the nation’s capital, represent those "ugly Americans" who would much rather American troops cut and run back to their mommies, and leave the recently freed men, women and children of Iraq to the mercy of the crazed remnant of the brutal Baath Party and the bloodthirsty terrorist insurgents among them.

In the end, the left is not really about "human rights". In the end, the left is not really about human dignity at all. In the end, for the left, the poor devastated people of Iraq can be readily sacrificed in order to spite their enemy, George W. Bush. After all, who cares about the freedom and safety of men, women and children who aren't Americans, right?

The liberal position is the position of the "ugly American".

I’m not an "ugly American."

Are you?