'My country, always wrong'

I find it amazing what manages to pass for "white" in America when the political left wants it to. During the manhunt for the Boston Marathon bombers last week, the press made it painfully evident that they desperately hoped the perpetrators would wind up being conservative tea-party Christian Republicans, but at least white.

"Please don't be a Muslim" even graced the title of one Washington Post article – but we'll address that brand of insanity in a bit.

When the suspects were finally identified as Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the press immediately pronounced them "white." A collective "A-HA!" of vindication rose on the airwaves and in cyberspace, as though all of America had somehow been certain that "brown people did it."

Although the brothers Tsarnaev are technically "Caucasian" in the sense that their home country, Chechnya, lies in the North Caucasus mountains of Russia, they aren't what has been considered "white" in the Western world for centuries. Generally speaking, people who fall into that category are those descended from forebears in Northern and Western Europe, Scandinavia and the British Isles, inasmuch as Southern Europeans, some Eastern Europeans, Eurasians and even the Irish have historically suffered discrimination under the former in the West.

Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev are Eurasian. Well, Tamerlan was Eurasian; his surviving brother Dzhokhar remains so.

George Zimmerman (who stands accused of shooting Trayvon Martin, a black youth, on Feb. 26, 2012) isn't white either – but that didn't stop the left from promoting and persecuting him as such because it suited their agenda. They and opportunistic black career activists whipped the public into near-rioting frenzy in the weeks following the shooting, which Zimmerman claims was self-defense. Yet the incident remains a "hate crime" in the eyes of the public, even though it has been long since revealed that Zimmerman is of Peruvian, black, as well as German ancestry, and his mixed lineage is visibly evident.

Once again, however, as I've indicated regarding many high-profile phenomena ostensibly centered around race, this is actually not the issue. In the case of Zimmerman-Martin, the issue of ethnicity was exploited to foment ethnic tensions and public discord. In the case of the Boston bombers, even prior to their identification, it was also used to foment tension; since then, it has been employed to promote the inordinate and dangerous deference toward Muslims liberals have been cultivating since 2002. Despite the fact that most Americans were more than duly conscientious with regard to not condemning the entirety of Islam for the actions of the 9/11 terrorists, liberals subsequently crafted a narrative of Muslims having been persecuted ever since.

Stay with me on this one: So, even though the brothers Tsarnaev are "white," the fact that they are Muslims qualifies them for the same victimhood status as the majority of the world's Muslims, who are "brown."

Brain hurt yet?

If it hasn't become evident by now: This race and religion-baiting is a pretext, a component of the left's design to destabilize America. Americans are being – and in many instances have been – conditioned either to ignore radical Islam, or to sympathize with Islamists. The result can be observed (as I indicated last week in this space) in several European nations, where the citizenry, beleaguered by hordes of radical, disruptive and economically parasitic Muslims, nevertheless vociferously defend them. The unwitting natives remain unaware that it has always been the Islamists' goal to displace them into dhimmitude.

A person cannot know that President Obama is thick as thieves with radical Islamist factions such as the Muslim Brotherhood and the terrorist-affiliated Council for American Islamic Relations (CAIR) and claim surprise that we are now beginning to live out the European nightmare vis-à-vis Islam. Young American fools who rush to the defense of Muslim radicals and their silent "peaceful" brethren obviously don't recall the innumerable news reports of café bombings that came out of European nations during the 1970s, and the radical Muslim groups that claimed responsibility for each and every one.

The fact is that we have far more human garbage in this country than we ever ought to have tolerated, and this has nothing to do with ethnicity or religion; it has to do with what is in people's hearts and minds. What we haven't imported, the left has created. Liberals and radical Marxism in particular have inculcated a sense that we somehow deserve the antipathy of those around the world (and by extension, émigrés from Third World toilets) and so should endure it. The ongoing complaint of Muslims (radical and otherwise) is very much in this vein.

It is proper that Americans scrutinize the ethics of our leaders' foreign policy; it is part of our civic duty. Would that we had done so more scrupulously in past years, or we might have more readily recognized the scope of our government's corruption. This boilerplate Vietnam-era Marxist-inspired cynicism, however, has taken us from "my country, right or wrong" to "my country, always wrong," which is just as immoral a stance as the former.

The enormity of the crimes being perpetrated by our government relative to this subject and countless others is of dizzying proportion, and the degree of brazen deception on the part of the Obama administrations is positively surreal. Thus, the magnitude of the lies that liberal and insufficiently engaged Americans are buying into is greater than any ever foisted upon a nation. That the government and the press are succeeding at this in an age of such ready information is as impressive as it is horrifying.