In the UK Observer, Nick Cohen wrote a good piece about the left’s response to the London bombing:
I feel the appeal, believe me. You are exasperated with the manifold faults of Tony Blair and George W Bush. Fighting your government is what you know how to do and what you want to do, and when you are confronted with totalitarian forces which are far worse than your government, the easy solution is to blame your government for them.
But it’s a parochial line of reasoning to suppose that all bad, or all good, comes from the West – and a racist one to boot. The unavoidable consequence is that you must refuse to support democrats, liberals, feminists and socialists in the Arab world and Iran who are the victims of Islamism in its Sunni and Shia guises because you are too compromised to condemn their persecutors.
Of course, the fact that the writer is named Cohen means that someone will contend that he’s a traitor to the left and “an agent of Israel” or somesuch.
You oughtta read the whole shebang.