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The Left's Lacking Solidarity.

The back-and-forth demonstrating continued this week in Lebanon, with the pro-freedom crowd definitely more photogenic than the pro-Syria crowd.

Meanwhile, the perpetually-protesting segment of the left continues to miss the stirrings of democracy happening around the world. The far left could lend its voice to these struggles, joining in solidarity with freedom-lovers living in repression in fear societies. Instead, Israel and America remain their primary protest targets:

If American and European left-wing activists devoted a fraction of their energies to promoting and supporting democratic movements in unfree societies, it could dramatically hasten the march of freedom.

But instead, they mock the very term "march of freedom" and continue their self-important Bush-loathing.

Washington Monthly has more about how lame "Postmodern Protests" have become, indeed, why marches in mature democracies only matter to those participating in them.

Posted by Will Franklin · 2 April 2005 03:48 PM

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Posted by: Zsa Zsa at April 2, 2005 05:40 PM