WARNING: ANGRY RANT.

Perhaps the most striking divide in this country is between those who actually believe that we are at war and those who don't. For those who don't, this sounds like another golden opportunity to wake up: the senseless murder of 198 commuters, slaughtered during rush hour on a train. Defenseless. Innocent. Dead.

An event like this doesn't just stoke my hatred of the terrorists, those violentally intolerant cockroaches that seek to buy divinity or secular political godhood by dismantling civilization and murdering innocent people ... I view the terrorists as clever, deadly animals, simply and unerringly guided by psychotic hatred. Their role is clear, and they merely need to be exterminated. I would have little doubt that we could accomplish this, if it were not for the efforts of a more subtle enemy that facilitates their existence ...

What has really started to creep into my thoughts and inspire my anger is our generation's version of what Stalin called the "useful idiots." The apologist leftists. The auto-pacifists. Those that let their personal aversion to violence solely animate their political views. Those that exclusively shriek about cultural relativism and "root causes." Those that play politics to the detriment of the war on terror. Those that let their personal predilections about domestic issues chronically interfere with the concept that we are in terrible danger.

I'm sick of it.

*I'm sick of Salon.com's paranoid delusional hand-wringing and self-loathing of America.

*I'm beyond sick of Joe Conason. I have NEVER read anyone who is more of a craven, knee-jerk ideologue.

*I'm sick of Paul Begala, that f**kwit that will play any angle to further his sworn demonic allegience to a political party.

* Ditto Sidney Blumenthal and the little monster that is Carville.

*I'm sick of Bill Maher's snarky, intellectually shallow one-liners that imply Bush's dishonesty about motivations for the War in Iraq.

* I'm sick of Chris Matthew's intellectually shallow mouth-breathing spittle-fests that also imply Bush's dishonesty about motivations for the War in Iraq.

* I'm sick of Reuters.

* I'm sick of Ted Rall and John Pilger, both of whom might actually join Al Quaeda, if given the chance.

The list goes on, and on and on ...

But mostly, I'm sick of the legion of Maureen Dowds. They surround me in this city. They are more concerned with "cosmeceutials," and materialism, and faux-empathy with society's downtrodden, and hatred of Bush than they are with the fundamental, pressing concept that technology has evolved at a faster rate than humanity has matured. And to strategically attack this problem we have to take a shot at an aggressive gameplan that remakes whole societies, not one that hunkers down and seeks to pray for peace while attending cocktail parties.

To these people the idea of a series of bombs exploding in Spain is an event made abstract by distance, and the attacks in NY and DC have been made abstract by time. WAKE UP! It is here! And just as easily as it could be a train in Spain, or crumbling Twin Towers, or a nightclub in Bali, or a pizza parlor in Israel, it can also be on the subway YOU are riding on - tomorrow!

And it's not caused by Bush. And it's not caused by some coup the CIA may have engineered in the 70's. And it's not Donald Rumsfeld's wet dream. And it's not about oiiiiiiil. And it's not because of the Patriot Act, or the fact that Brazilians need to be fingerprinted before they enter the country.

Terrorism is hatred, it is human nature, and it and terrible weapons are here to stay. We must not lose focus. And we must realize that those who facilitate loss of focus are also a type of enemy. They undermine the will of free and properous societies in the face of a threat. They offer contrarian criticism without credible alternative. They give rise to the concept that Democracy and capitalism are weak.

How to confront this enemy? Ideas.

(NOTE: Yes, I realize that I am only vilifying left-wing ideologues and worshipping right wingers; but the rabid left-wing is on the wrong side of an issue that is so vital, so important, that they must be singled out and defeated. Also, the right-wingers that I venerate are some of the most reasoned thinkers on either side of the left-right debate)