The Real Villans of 9/11 Finally Revealed!

I hesitate to write about Dinesh D'Souza's new book because, in our climate of hyper-consumerist commercialism, excoriating a product usually serves only to increase its sales. But D'Souza's noxious The Enemy at Home (un-huh, that's what it's called) is so illustrative of the poisoning of American politics by preening bigots who pass themselves off as earnest pundits, I cannot resist a brief comment.

See, 9/11 may have been the work of al-Qaeda, but al-Qaeda is the work of - the sniveling American left led by its fierce femo-fascist counter-cultural zealots high on weed and God knows what else.

Well, first, Mr. D'Souza, if you're going to do this sort of thing, Ann Coulter's got the right idea - one syllable titles for one syllable brains. "ENEMY!" would have been so much better.

Second, how about a little originality? D'Souza can't do any better than fall back on the old "outsider agitator" thesis that phony patriots have used to blame others for the sins they commit from time immemorial.

Remember during the civil rights struggle how those Southern white boys defending the purity of their Southern white schools stood in front of school doors with baseball bats in their hands saying "our colored boys wouldn't want no education if it weren't for these northern liberals putting ideas in their heads"? Or the Red hunters who well before Joe McCarthy got started were certain that so-called economic injustice in the United States was just a contrivance of Moscow Commies trying to stir up an otherwise wholly content American working class which wouldn't want a union if it was offered to workers on a platter?

D'Souza is certain that 9/11 and Al-Qaeda and terrorism in general are the result NOT of deranged fundamentalist minds or misfiring foreign policy strategies (American troops in the Middle East, the persistence of the Palestinian problem), but rather of America's cultural left. Yep, gay hippies and feminist flower children and their post-modern offspring have left behind a culture so corrupt and depraved that Osama just had to blow up the whole thing. (At least Pat Robertson blamed the whole dang-blasted messed-up American society for the calamity, not just campus pinkos and lusty liberals!)

So just when you thought they were dead, the cultural warriors are back, venting and fuming and voiding their innards all over Barnes and Nobles and Amazon. But of course McWorld's corporations and Hollywood's legions that are ACTUALLY responsible for the violence and salaciousness of popular culture, and who profit enormously from exploiting it, get a free pass. Nope, it's all the feminists and the post-structuralists and academic softies who have done the damage and who need expurgating or expunging or whatever.

Maybe what we really need is ANOTHER SURGE, maybe several platoons of the Daughters of the American Revolution bearing down on our liberal arts campuses and putting an end for once and for all to the cultural corruption that is the real cause of global terrorism. It will be a lot cheaper than 20,000 more troops in Iraq, and the only likely casualties will be truth and honor.

Oh, by the way, if you think I'm exaggerating, do me a favor, take my word for it. DON'T BUY THE BOOK TO FIND OUT. Putting dollars in D'Souza's pocket for publishing this sort of oozing excrement is really a bad idea.

P.S. Yes, I'm mentioned in the book, but I regret to say I am not treated as a major culprit. Where did I go wrong? As Brecht wrote in his poem about book-burning in Germany, when he rushed to the fire-side and found the fascists burning books, he noticed none of his were among them, and he shouted "Where are MY books? What's wrong with them!? Burn my books!" It should be the mark of honorable women and men in America to be among the accused in D'Souza's vicious (if brainless) indictment.