Matthews Plays Kumbaya-ball

Chris Matthews took his Leftist drivel across the border a few days ago.
The Edmonton Sun provides an enlightening account of a speech Matthews delivered at the University of Toronto.
"The period between 9-11 and (invading) Iraq was not a good time for America. There wasn't a robust discussion of what we were doing," Matthews said."If we stop trying to figure out the other side, we've given up. The person on the other side is not evil. They just have a different perspective.

I disagree.

Kidnapping civilians and beheading them on videotape is NOT a different perspective. That's evil.

Hijacking civilian airliners and flying them into buildings filled with thousands of innocent people is NOT a different perspective. That's evil.

Matthews lives in a fog of moral relativity. That's dangerous.
"The smartest people understand the enemy's point of view, because they understand what's driving them."

OK, smart guy, what's driving them?

The type of anti-Americanism you spew on a daily basis?
He said Bush squandered an opportunity to unite the world against terrorism and instead made decisions that built up worldwide animosity for his administration.

With all due respect to Matthews, DUH!

Why do Leftists like Matthews ignore all that happened before Bush took office?

When Clinton was president, after the World Trade Center, our embassies, and the USS Cole were bombed, why didn't he unite the world against terrorism?

Why didn't Clinton take custody of Osama bin Laden when Sudan had him and offered him to the U.S.?

Talk about a squandered opportunity!
"We had a strong international unity coming out of 9-11. The world was never so united against terrorism and we lost that," Matthews said. "That is the great tragedy of the Bush era."

I think a great tragedy of the Bush era is that his opponents on the Left shamelessly put self-interest ahead of country, freedom, democracy, and human rights.

When asked what caused the U.S. to invade Iraq, he said it was a combination of factors.

"I think the father-son relationship with the Bushes is part of it. I think the oil thing is part of it," Matthews said of the current president and his father, George Bush Sr., who was president during the Gulf War more than a decade ago.

"Our friendship with Israel (is part of it) and 9-11 created a kind of crazy Zeitgeist in the country. Bush wanted to do something big. It couldn't just be tracking down al-Qaida. He wanted a big bang. I think it's a mixture of these things."

Obviously, Matthews is a member of the radical far Left, hitting all of their positively loony talking points.

He belongs in the Crawford ditch with Cindy Sheehan.
Matthews said the current president is guilty of not knowing enough about the world and not keeping up with current events, as was evident in the aftermath of hurricane Katrina and the slow reaction to the crisis in New Orleans.

I think Matthews is guilty of not knowing enough about the terrorists and not keeping up with their intentions to slaughter Americans.
Text of bin Laden's Fatwa

(Note: The fatwa was issued in early 1998.)

(Note to Matthews: The terrorists are evil.)