Our enemy's friends.(Unholy Alliance: Radical Islam and the American Left)(Book Review)

Unholy Alliance: Radical Islam and the American Left By David Horowitz Regnery, 296 pages, $27.95

In cities across the country, Americans protesting George W. Bush's foreign policy carry posters of the President with a Hitler mustache, and signs that read "We Support Our Troops When They Shoot Their Officers." A keynote speaker at the massive "peace" demonstration at the Capitol in 2003 proclaims that "I don't want to talk about bin Laden. I want to talk about a terrorist called George Washington. I want to talk about a terrorist called Rudy Giuliani. The real terrorists have always been the United Snakes of America."

Columbia University professor Nicholas De Genova preaches that "peace anticipates ... a world where the U.S. would have no place." After 9/11, The Nation's Katha Pollit tells her teenage daughter, who wanted to fly an American flag out the window: "Definitely not, I say: The flag stands for jingoism and vengeance and war." Best-selling novelist Barbara Kingsolver, in reaction to her daughter's kindergarten class being asked to wear red, white, and blue the next day, wrote: "I fear the sound of saber-rattling, dread that not just nay taxes but even my children are being dragged to the cause of death in the wake of death." Not wanting their daughter to feel like an outcast, Kingsolver and her husband agreed to dress her in the flag colors. "And because," Kingsolver adds, "my wise husband put a hand on my arm and said, 'You can't let hateful people steal the flag from us.' He didn't mean terrorists, he meant Americans."

Ever since 9/11, left-wing academics, writers, celebrities, politicians, and journalists have been falling over themselves to denounce as imperialistic and racist everything from flag-waving to the ousting of Saddam Hussein. Last year, speakers at the national Democratic convention warned of the danger that threatens this country--George W. Bush. Hollywood fabricator Michael Moore is believed and respected by millions.

The worst sin, in the eyes of such people, is to call the enemy by name: radical Islam. Since the day 3,000 people were slaughtered, the day human beings jumped, fully conscious, from the 92nd floors of the burning towers, the primary concern of the Left has decidedly not been how to prevent the next attack, but how to protect allegedly endangered civil rights and stem the fictitious wave of "Islamophobia" sweeping the country.

Americans. Millions of them. Demonstrating in solidarity with everyone from the Butcher of ...