Judging Non-Judgmentalism

One of the things that bothered me so much about the period right after 9/11 is how often you heard someone on the left say "One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter" or some such thing. They said it as if it were a profound thought. But really, it was a cliché standing in for a failure to make a moral judgment. Yes, yes, "judge not ...," but failure is the right word. What sort of world would we live in were we all to abdicate the responsibility to tell the difference between right and wrong?

I bring this up because following the bombing in London, we've been hearing some of the same moral abdication from the left again. See this post for some examples. What make this so abhorrent is that these same leftists who are too sophisticated to judge terrorists have no such problem when it comes to Wal-Mart, Karl Rove, or Imperialism. So then, either they just don't think terrorism is that big of a deal, or they don't think it's wrong. Either way, that's a huge blindspot, and a big part of the reason that Kerry lost the election.

On a related note, apparently Oliver Stone is directing a movie about 9/11. That this is a terrible idea almost goes without saying, but if you're not convinced, read this.