KEITH THOMPSON explica, en un interesante artículo en el San Francisco Chronicle, porqué ha decidido abandonar la izquierda:

Nightfall, Jan. 30. Eight-million Iraqi voters have finished risking their lives to endorse freedom and defy fascism. Three things happen in rapid succession. The right cheers. The left demurs. I walk away from a long-term intimate relationship. I'm separating not from a person but a cause: the political philosophy that for more than three decades has shaped my character and consciousness, my sense of self and community, even my sense of cosmos.

I'm leaving the left -- more precisely, the American cultural left and what it has become during our time together.

I choose this day for my departure because I can no longer abide the simpering voices of self-styled progressives -- people who once championed solidarity with oppressed populations everywhere -- reciting all the ways Iraq's democratic experiment might yet implode.

My estrangement hasn't happened overnight. Out of the corner of my eye I watched what was coming for more than three decades, yet refused to truly see. Now it's all too obvious. Leading voices in America's "peace" movement are actually cheering against self-determination for a long-suffering Third World country because they hate George W. Bush more than they love freedom.

(via Blogdex).

ACTUALIZACIÓN. Había escrito esta anotación antes de mi ración matutina de lectura de blogs, así que no había visto que Manel ya había escrito sobre el tema ayer, incluso dedicándome amablemente el post. Y sí, tiene razón: estas cosas me tocan la fibra sensible. Cómo no iban a hacerlo, si reproducen mi propia peripecia vital.