In an article in today's Aftonbladet, the resident pacifists Åsa Linderborg and Erik Wijk express their unreserved glee over comments made by some US Marine Corps soldiers in Newsweek and pose the question to the editorial writers in Sweden on “when is enough enough?”
They are referring to the argument that US troops can not (and should not) pull out of Iraq while violence is still at a high level. Their argument has always been that US troops should not have entered into Iraq and should leave at once, consequences be damned.
It is fascinating that their love of fascism, and its agents, supersedes their supposed love of democracy and solidarity. If they truly care for average Iraqi’s, why are they not pleased at the death of Zarqawi? Why do they wish to worsen the security of the country if they feel for the average Iraqi’s welfare? And why do they feel that it is more important to be ideologically consistent than pragmatic about what is best for the Iraqi nation?
The headline of their article should be answered by Linderborg and Wijk themselves: when will they admit that they would rather have Saddam still in power and the status quo in Iraq and the Middle East, rather than steps toward freedom and independence? When will they admit where their sympathies actually lie? And when will they admit that their false pacifism entails coddling totalitarianism and fascism and not opposing it?
