I only wish I could quote the whole thing:

What explains this automatic censure of the United States, Israel, and to a lesser extent the Anglo-democracies of the United Kingdom and Australia? Westernization, coupled with globalization, has created an affluent and leisured elite that now gravitates to universities, the media, bureaucracies, and world organizations, all places where wealth is not created, but analyzed, critiqued, and lavishly spent.

Thus we now expect that the New York Times, Harper's, Le Monde, U.N. functionaries who call us "stingy," French diplomats, American writers and actors will all (1) live a pretty privileged life; (2) in recompense "feel" pretty worried and guilty about it; (3) somehow connect their unease over their comfort with a pathology of the world's hyperpower, the United States; and (4) thus be willing to risk their elite status, power, or wealth by very brave acts such as writing anguished essays, giving pained interviews, issuing apologetic communiqués, braving the rails to Davos, and barking off-the-cuff furious remarks about their angst over themes (1) through (3) above. What a sad contrast they make with far better Iraqis dancing in the street to celebrate their voting.

Almost everyone I know who is either liberal or voted against Bush (which is to say, almost everyone I know) will quite gleefully and accurately point out whatever failings conservatives in general or this administration in particular they happened to notice this week. Unfortunately, that's all they seem to do. Don't tell me what you stand against, tell me what you stand for. Until you do, you're just in the way.

"Why bother, when all you'll do is pick it apart anyway?"

If your beliefs can't stand up against some arguments from a dumb Arkansas kid, you have bigger problems than who happens to be in the White House.

"You won't listen anyway, and I simply will not tolerate hearing the same arguments over and over and over again."

What, because they're right? We invite debate over here, we don't block comments and ban visitors. If you can't tolerate a discussion, why bother starting one?