Lefty Anne Applebaum echoes something that conservatives have been saying
for a long time:

"The larger point, though, is that the "it's-all-an-American-plot"
arguments circulating in cyberspace again demonstrate something that the
writer Christopher Hitchens, himself a former Trotskyite, has been talking
about for a long time: At least a part of the Western left -- or rather
the
Western far left -- is now so anti-American, or so anti-Bush, that it
actually prefers authoritarian or totalitarian leaders to any government
that would be friendly to the United States. Many of the same people who
found it hard to say anything bad about Saddam Hussein find it equally
difficult to say anything nice about pro-democracy demonstrators in
Ukraine. Many of the same people who would refuse to condemn a dictator
who
is anti-American cannot bring themselves to admire democrats who admire,
or
at least don't hate, the United States."

There are plenty of left-wingers who hate America with such fervor, such
passion, that it overrides most other considerations. Don't believe it?
Look at the popularity of Noam Chomsky, a man whose entire works could be
boiled down to the phrase, "America is the source of all evil in the
world". Remember the glumness on the left side of the blogosphere when our
troops liberated Iraq? Have you ever noticed how many lefties can talk and
write constantly about what's wrong with George Bush, what's wrong with
Republicans, what's wrong with America...but have almost nothing negative
to say about the enemies our country?

It's no coincidence folks. "The blame America first" crowd that Reagan
talked about has only gotten larger and more powerful on the left over the
years.

At least a part of the Western left -- or rather the
Western far left -- is now so anti-American, or so anti-Bush, that it
actually prefers authoritarian or totalitarian leaders to any government
that would be friendly to the United States.
Have you ever noticed how many lefties can talk and
write constantly about what's wrong with George Bush, what's wrong with
Republicans, what's wrong with America...but have almost nothing negative
to say about the enemies our country?

It's no coincidence folks. "The blame America first" crowd that Reagan
talked about has only gotten larger and more powerful on the left over the
years.