Ageing Principles

Usually a haven of the Left, Julie Szego in The Age gets it spot on:

It doesn't answer why almost no one marched for the women oppressed by the Taliban, but plenty marched against a war that promised to liberate them. It doesn't answer why the streets weren't choked with protesters when Saddam gassed Kurds. It doesn't answer why they aren't choked now with protesters demanding an end to genocide in Sudan's Darfur.

But the reasons why the Left is quick to side with those that would be least likely to grant them the same level of tolerance is clear. The Left believes its enemy’s enemy is its friend - even if it’s the same strand of Islamism that hates women and gays, detests even the most basic human rights and consistently displays deeply bigoted views against, for instance, Jews. All this is peripheral to a Leftist that can score points against an even greater adversary - The United States.