Evil is evil is evil

Michael Totten recently made a trip to northern Iraq, the Kurdish areas. He is in the midst of a series of posts on the trip, and they are riveting.

You must read this post, though. It is about Saddam Hussein's brutality and savagery, and how the Kurds suffered under Hussein.

Perhaps someone on the Left can again remind me why it was wrong to destroy Hussein's regime.

Reading through this post, you can't help but think of the Nazis, Stalin, Pol Pot, and others. Mankind's capacity for evil knows no bounds, and puts the lie to the notion that we are all basically good.

If not for President Bush and the US military, there would still be rape rooms in Iraq. There would still be mass executions.

Yes, there are still murderers loose in Iraq, and radical Islamists kill innocents from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean, and just about everywhere in between. We cannot back down. Our fate is clear if the killers have their way. The museum that Totten writes about, and other museums like it, are a stark reminder.

For as long as I live, I will never understand how the Cindy Sheehans of the world can make statements like President Bush is the world's greatest terrorist, Bush is a killer, etc... How can people be so blind in the face of the evil in this world? How can they be so wrong?

Do they close their eyes to this suffering? Are they so filled with self-hate that they project it onto those who stand in the way of this evil, and resist it?

What parent can ignore that picture of that child with the sign that reads "Dear Mom and Dad. I am going to be executed by the Baath. I will not see you again.", and not be filled with a determination to fight those who would do the same to our children if they could?

If something like this does not affect the cold hearts on the Left, nothing will.