The writer of this post and I live in two different worlds, and remember two completely different versions of the recent past.

As I remember 9/11, the Left in the United States was indeed horrified by the terrorist attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center, but it immediately raised the issue of why educated Arabs with promising careers in engineering would commit suicide: it was in order to answer that question that the President of the U.S. had to claim -- this couldn't have been more prominent -- "they hate us for our freedoms".

The Left in the United States did not want the U.S. to invade Afghanistan, let alone Iraq; it wanted the terrorist organizers of 9/11 to be hunted, captured, and put on trial. It responded to the call for a "War on Terror", that it is impossible to declare war on a tactic. It asked the United States to contemplate why its decades of bombing and intervention abroad inspired the terrorists to attack civilians inside the U.S.

And it is doing the exact same thing with the Hamas attack last week.

The Left is perfectly consistent. It is the Imperialist corporate Establishment that considers Arab and Palestinian deaths to be valueless, but American and Israeli deaths invaluable.