(via LGF)   Victor Davis Hanson comes online with his typical insight and gift for words in a National Review OpEd Dumb and Dumber.

Hanson delves into the various fissures opened by the Iraqi situation.   He dismisses critics who portray the primary faultline as religious:

The present crisis is far too complex to dismiss as a simple jihad. It resembles more the festering Balkan boil — likewise lanced by the U.S. military. Protestant and Catholic Americans bombed Orthodox Christian Serbs to save Islamic Bosnians and Kosovars — and were met with silence from the Muslim world, outrage from the Orthodox, and indifference from the European Catholic and Protestant.

And perhaps the most "disturbing" fault line -- within the US:

The behavior of elites is similarly disturbing and reveals a deep sickness within American culture. What is the pathology that infects privileged Americans in this present conflict — why is it that the clerics are so out of touch with their parishioners, the actors with their audience, the professors with their students, the reporters with their readers? Hollywood celebrities either trash America abroad to cheering Europeans (cf. Jessica Lange, the Dixie Chicks, or Michael Moore), visit a criminal state on the eve of war (cf. Sean Penn), or talk of the general oppression and unfairness of the corporate America that alone gives Hollywooders a lifestyle undreamed of by the rest of America or the world at large (cf. Barbra Streisand or Ms. Huffington). Lost in all this posturing are some 26 million Iraqis — tortured, exiled, jailed, and brutalized under fascism.

I live just a few minutes south of the People's Republic of San Francisco with it's self-righteous far left protestors.   This self annointed elite deeply believe that physically interrupting everyday folks on their way to work or the grocery store constitutes a moral crusade.   They believe that those who of us who actually believe in this intervention are somehow fundamentally morally corrupt and have hence lost our privilege to simply go about our daily lives.  

It seems like VDH is quite aware of their ilk.

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Update: A friend writes in with his observations on the protests in downtown SF:

You know what really busts my ass?  Some skinny little asshole of a guy with a bullhorn in his overly entitled hand saying "we need to start the regime change in washington dc" when you just fu*king know this idiot prick voted for Ralph Nader.

The far left can be so transparently moronic that they taint folks with even slightly left-of-center politics (like me) with the stink of their stupidity.

It is only tangentially related to the VDH article above BUT, there's something about his eloquence that I wanted to capture in the blog   ;-)

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