The National Post of Canada has some good journalism, better far than the house organs of the hateful left here in America, which are with satisfying regularity going bankrupt.

Christopher Hitchens, once the literary editor of a Marxist magazine, has become an enemy of fascism anywhere, and has bravely attacked it on the left. There is a Canadian scholar Jamie Glazov, who has published United in Hate: The Left's Romance with Tyranny and Terror

Here is an excerpt from The National Post:

The day after the 9/11 attacks, superstar left-wing academic Noam Chomsky exonerated the terrorists, stating that the Clinton administration's 1998 bombing of Al-Shifa pharmaceutical factory in Sudan constituted a far more serious terrorist act, and warning that 9/11 would be exploited by the United States as an excuse to destroy Afghanistan.

Leftist academics across the United States echoed Chomsky's themes, lamenting the tragedy while cheering the motives behind it -- which they cast as just retribution for America's transgressions. History professor Robin Kelley of New York University stated:
"We need a civil war, class war, whatever to put an end to U. S. policies that endanger all of us." Professor Eric Foner of Columbia University, a renowned Marxist historian, expressed his personal confusion about "which is more frightening: the horror that engulfed New York City or the apocalyptic rhetoric emanating daily from the White House."

Barbara Foley, a professor of English at Rutgers University, felt 9/11 was a justified response to the "fascism" of U. S. foreign policy. Mark Lewis Taylor, a professor of theology and culture at Princeton Seminary, thought the WTC buildings were justifiable targets because they were a "symbol of today's wealth and trade."

The infamous Ward Churchill -- then a professor of ethnic studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder -- outdid all the others, placing the blame not only on George W. Bush and America, but on the obliterated WTC victims themselves, whom he described as "little Eichmanns." Norman Mailer stepped forward to opine that the suicide hijackers were "brilliant." In his view, the attack was completely understandable, since "Everything wrong with America led to the point where the country built that tower of Babel which consequently had to be destroyed."

Oliver Stone affirmed that he saw 9/11 as a "revolt," and compared the ensuing Palestinian celebrations with those that had attended the French and Russian Revolutions. Susan Sontag held that the terrorist attack was the result of "specific American alliances and actions." Tony Campolo, a leading Christian evangelist who served as one of Bill Clinton's "spiritual advisors," believed that 9/11 was a legitimate response to the Crusades.

Nation columnist Katha Pollitt was shocked at her teenage daughter's impulse to fly an American flag outside the family home. Pollitt told her that she could "buy a flag with her own money and fly it out her bedroom window, because that's hers, but the living room is off-limits." This was, Pollitt explained, because the American flag stands for "jingoism and vengeance and war."

German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen described 9/11 as "the greatest work of art for the whole cosmos." Dario Fo, the Italian Marxist who won the 1997 Nobel Prize for literature, observed: "The great [Wall Street] speculators wallow in an economy that every year kills tens of millions of people with poverty, so what is 20,000 dead in New York?"

As the Twin Towers lay in ruins and America tried to come to grips with an unspeakable act of evil, the left's glee mutated into compassion for the entity that had harboured al-Qaeda and facilitated their crime -- the Islamofascist Taliban regime in Afghanistan. There were some 200 "antiwar" demonstrations in the United States and around the world before the end of September, 2001.

On Oct. 18, 11 days after U. S. forces invaded Afghanistan, Noam Chomsky informed an MIT audience that the United States was the "greatest terrorist state" and was planning "a silent genocide" against the Afghans. Leftists took their guru's lead and staged "peace vigils" and "teach-ins" on campuses across the country.

The left was traumatized by the fact that America's military success in the months following was achieved with minimal Afghan casualties -- making a mockery of Chomsky's forecast of a U. S.-directed genocide. To make the developments even more excruciating, the United States succeeded in laying the groundwork for Afghanistan's democratization.

While the left gnashed its teeth over this nightmare scenario in Afghanistan, it turned its sights toward Iraq. Again, the left reached out with affection to forces dedicated to the totalitarian tradition -- in this case, Saddam Hussein, whose brutality approached that of Hitler's, Stalin's and Pol Pot's. Saddam had also made his country a patron of terrorists, to whom, the U. S. government feared, he might eventually transfer weapons of mass destruction.

Mass "anti-war" demonstrations broke out across America and Western Europe, organized and led by veteran activists who'd rooted for the communists during the Cold War. This coalition welcomed all factions of the left; it was composed of organizations that ranged from the Communist Party to the National Council of Churches to Muslim supporters of the terrorist jihad. The mobilizations were organized by radical groups including International ANSWER (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism), a front group for the Workers World Party, a Marxist-Leninist sect aligned with Communist North Korea. The demonstrations not only opposed American involvement in

Iraq but also promoted Saddam's dictatorship and the Islamist terrorists. The behavior of Leslie Cagan and Medea Benjamin told the story best. These two "peace" leaders, joining forces, created a group called Occupation Watch and established a centre in Baghdad. Pressing for an American defeat, the group encouraged American soldiers to defect, tried to discredit any American company attempting to rebuild Iraq, emphasized reports of American casualties (loyal to the leftist tradition of obsessing over body bags) and accused U. S. troops of committing horrific atrocities against Iraqis.

The demonstrations themselves took on eerie and horrid manifestations. Leftists marched side by side with Islamist fanatics who despised democracy, modernity and individual freedom, practised misogyny and homophobia and supported theocracy and dictatorship. American "peace" protesters waved placards with pro-Islamist slogans and chanted "Allahu Akbar." It was typical of them that the only religious term these leftists would utter is the one cried out by Islamist suicide bombers before they blow themselves up.

Nicholas De Genova, a professor of anthropology at Columbia University, exemplifies this mentality perfectly. At a Columbia teach-in, he expressed the hope that America would lose in Iraq, arguing that the world's true heroes were those who would defeat the American military. He added that he yearned for "a million Mogadishus," referring to the grotesque 1993 incident in Somalia, in which 18 American soldiers were murdered in an ambush by an associate of al-Qaeda and one soldier was dragged through the streets in front of cheering crowds.

Osama bin Laden himself understood very well what was happening. On Feb. 12, 2003, just before U. S. and British troops liberated Iraq, Al Jazeera TV aired a videotape in which the terror master declared: "The interests of Muslims and the interests of the socialists coincide in the war against the crusaders."

The left did not disappoint bin Laden. Leftists such as Tom Hayden, Naomi Klein and "peace mom" Cindy Sheehan rushed to oppose president Bush and demand the evacuation of American forces from Iraq, knowing full well that such an evacuation would lead to a massive bloodbath. Michael Moore also pronounced his desire for the victory of jihad in Iraq. He produced his infamous propaganda film Fahrenheit-9-11, which demonized the Bush administration by twisting facts.

Though authors such as Christopher Hitchens exposed the myriad lies upon which the film was based, the left congratulated Moore from every corner. Former president Jimmy Carter even honoured Moore by inviting the propagandist to sit beside him at the Democratic National Convention in July 2004.

Robert Jensen, meanwhile, a professor of journalism at the University of Texas, celebrated America's "defeat" in Iraq. As American Marines engaged Sunni terrorists in a fierce battle in Fallujah on Dec. 3, 2004, the professor wrote: "The United States has lost the war in Iraq, and that's a good thing...I welcome the U. S. defeat,"

Unfortunately for Jensen, America would go on to achieve its primary goals in Iraq. By the summer of 2008, the American military, along with Iraqi forces, had routed al-Qaeda, significantly lowered sectarian violence and strengthened the democratic institutions of Iraq with the immediate effect of improving Iraqis' lives.

The left mourned these developments. The Democratic Party -- whose leadership tilted more than ever to the radical left -- began to realize that its war against the war had failed. The two Democratic leaders of Congress, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, who had proclaimed the Iraq War "lost," now had to temper and dodge the fallout of their hasty and presumptuous dismissal of General Petraeus' strategy. Barack Obama, the party's presidential candidate, who had, in large part, based his campaign during the Democratic primaries and caucuses on his opposition to the Iraq War and the surge, found himself in even more dire straits -- for he had now to explain his failed position to the American people. -