American 'progressives' support war crimes

If you want to be sick to your stomach and subject yourself to the morally reprehensible bullshit of the American ‘left’ – Middle East is too complicated, everybody is to blame, sit this one out, blah, blah, blah, the general Cutler/Chomsky disguised Zionism – read this by Patrick O'Heffernan (is that a pseudonym for Bill Kristol?).  Do American ‘progressives’ ever wonder why they are completely alone in the world, why their political ideas are considered e-x-t-r-e-m-e right-wing ideas anywhere else?