Right Wing News published this series of excerpts from an interview with ex-Nation writer Christopher Hitchens.   Quoting RWN:

They [today's Left wingers] look for bogus equivalencies that actually lead to a cop-out. "Well, he [bin Laden] did this bad thing, but we've done this bad thing." That leaves you exactly nowhere. And surely it should at least condemn both. In fact it appears to excuse both."

Hitchens takes on one of my favorite topics, Moral Equivalence:

...The fallacy is one of moral equivalence. The motive for it, or the ruse of it, is — I prefer to call it masochistic. It's a self-hatred. It's a refusal to believe that you would ever be justified yourself in having the arrogance to define and defend yourself against or to destroy an enemy. That would surely make you no better than them. But this is disabling."

And, finally, echoing a comment I made earlier in my blogging youth about Suicide Bikini's, Hitchens demonstrates that much of what passes for Anti-War rhetoric from the left is actually Anti-West Rhetoric.

..."The people who tend to raise antiwar slogans will do so generally when it's American or British interests involved. Ramsey Clark didn't organize a protest against Saddam Hussein's attack on Iran, or Kuwait. He's not antiwar to that extent. And nobody complained about the failure of the West — nobody complained in an organized street-protest way — about the failure of the West to rescue Rwanda. And nobody complained about Milosevic's invasion of Bosnia — well, that's not true, a lot of people did — but their juices only kicked in when there was intervention to remove him. Voilè! You see the bad faith of this all the way through. It culminates in the most fatuous slogan yet devised, which is: "Stop the war before it starts." Which is a protest against removing either al-Qaida from Afghanistan or the Taliban from Afghanistan or both. Well, at this point it has to be said I think that the left has lost every moral and political element that made it a formidable force as an antiwar movement in the 1960s."

So as long as no Westerner is displaying initiative / decisivness (which, in the Post Modern era is an impossibility), nothing ain't worth getting worked up about.   Perhaps we'll start seeing some amazing writing from Hitchens.   ;-)