Tuesday, when Brussels, Belgium, was hit by multiple terrorist bombs, was a day of tragedy and heartbreak for the city, the country, Europe and for the West.
It was also a day of shock and confusion for leftists in Western nations.
Just hours after a coordinated terror attack killed more than 30 people and wounded about 230 more in Brussels' airport and subway station, a headline in Politico's Europe Edition moaned, "Why do they hate us so much?"
During his Tuesday show, talk-radio titan Rush Limbaugh noted that headline, as well as the sub-headline: "How the Brussels attacks strike at the heart of Europe and shake its political foundations."
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He said he knows why European leftists were especially upset at this particular attack.
"I'll tell you why they're upset, folks," Limbaugh said. "It's more than being upset at just the fact that there was a terrorist event with, what is it, 34 people dead so far and climbing… The reason this attack has shaken them to the core is that Europe is utopia. Western European socialist democracies are utopia, in their mind and in their belief systems."
And Brussels, being the capital of the European Union and the seat of world power, is the heart of utopia. Limbaugh also described Europe as "nirvana" to the American left and the model to which the U.S. should aspire.
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"That's what we should be attempting to become: the equality, the fairness, sophistication, the eruditeness, the cleverness," Limbaugh said, mocking the left. "Europe is the new utopia! And how can these guys attack our utopia and not see it for what it is?”
Limbaugh continued to mimic the left struggling to understand why terrorists would want to attack such a free and pluralistic society:
“How in the hell do these guys not get it? This is utopia! This is where we all live together equally and free. Why do they not see the goodness in us? Why do they hate us so much? We understand 'em hating Trump. We understand 'em hating Cruz. We understand 'em hating American talk radio. But why do they hate us?”
Limbaugh speculated the left probably expects a little more gratitude from Muslims given that leftists constantly tiptoe around the issue of Islamic terror, always careful to avoid offending Muslims.
"They think by not calling it terrorism – and I'm talking about the media, I'm talking about Obama, his State Department, anybody on the left – by not calling it terrorism, by not criticizing Islam, by going after people who do, by reclassifying acts of terror in this country as workplace violence, by bending over backwards to not condemn, to not criticize Islam and Islamic terrorism, they believe that sends the signal, 'Hey, you don't have a problem with us. You don't need to attack us. We're not the bad guys. We're not gonna criticize you. We're not gonna condemn you.'
"And yet they hit us anyway."
Limbaugh thinks the liberal attitude toward Islam actually makes things worse, not better.
"In fact, folks, it is this pansy attitude of not calling them what they are, not describing their acts of terror as acts of terror, by refusing to admit openly who they are and what they are, by refusing to seriously try to stop them, they see nothing but weakness," he said.
Limbaugh thinks the terrorists see weakness in Hillary Clinton, who said the U.S. response to the Brussels attack must be consistent with American values, which in her mind includes not waterboarding terror suspects. The talk radio giant unloaded on Clinton.
"Who are we? A bunch of wusses, in your world, asking, 'Why do they hate us so much?' Asking, 'What did we do to make them mad?' And then not having the guts and the honesty to answer that correctly? They hate us so much because we are not of the same religion as they are, pure and simple. It's no more complicated than that."
Limbaugh also played a clip from Barack Obama’s brief remarks on the Brussels attack, in which the president said, "And this is yet another reminder that the world must unite. We must be together regardless of nationality or race or faith in fighting against the scourge of terrorism."
Limbaugh eviscerated Obama for that comment.
"I'm sorry, folks, but that's a crock," he scoffed. "The problem is not lack of unity. What, we're supposed to find a way to unify with ISIS? We're supposed to unite with criminals and terrorists? How does that work? It's yet another reminder the world must unite? You talk about a worthless, pointless reaction to this. That's not what the world has to do to stop this. The world has to get serious and wipe these people out."
Limbaugh seized on Obama's inference that there are people other than him who are reluctant to fight terrorism.
"The only person I know of that doesn't want to fight terrorism, Mr. President, is you!" Limbaugh exclaimed. "What do you mean, come together to fight terrorism? Show a little leadership on it. You won't even call it what it is. You will not even use the words 'radical Islam.' You will not say 'radical Islamic terrorism.' You will not say 'militant Islamic terror.' You won't even use the words."