Article by Robert Spencer in "PJMedia":
The inspiringly patriotic Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Tehran, no, check that, I’m hearing she’s from Minnesota) tweeted
Monday offering some unsolicited military advice to the Islamic
Republic of Iran: “Trump needs to immediately divest from his businesses
and comply with the emoluments clause. Iran could threaten Trump hotels
*worldwide* and he could provoke war over the loss of revenue from
skittish guests. His business interests should not be driving military
decisions.” She also tweeted
a video in which the late comedian George Carlin asserts that the U.S.
is “not very good at anything” besides war. And so once again we have to
ask the by-now-familiar question: Is Ilhan Omar a traitor who hates
America?
Omar’s warning that
Trump’s “business interests should not be driving military decisions”
makes no sense, because clearly the fact that Trump owns hotels that
Iran could target didn’t stop him from going after Qasem Soleimani. But
as far as Omar and her ideological allies are concerned, it doesn’t
matter how much they have to twist their logic into pretzels to get
Trump, as long as they make the president look bad. That imperative has
now driven Omar even to give a military suggestion to a hostile foreign
power. The mullahs and their henchmen haven’t said anything about
targeting Trump hotels, so here is a United States congresswoman to give
them a marvelous new idea about how they could murder Americans and
others, and further menace the United States.
The
definition of treason is giving aid and comfort to the enemy. The
leaders of the Islamic Republic of Iran order their people to chant
“Death to America” in mosques every Friday, and repeatedly vow that they
will ultimately destroy the United States of America and the state of
Israel. They were doing this before Soleimani was killed, and they’re
doing it now. How is giving them a suggestion about how they could
target the United States, whether or not they have or would have thought
of it themselves, not giving aid and comfort to the enemy, and hence treason?
When
she took the oath of office to become a member of the United States
House of Representatives, she swore to “support and defend the
Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and
domestic,” as well as to “bear true faith and allegiance to the same.”
Inviting, out of a hysterical hostility to the president of the United
States, a nation that regularly chants “Death to America” to strike
American-owned businesses – is that supporting and defending the nation
against foreign enemies? Omar might well split hairs and assert that she
suggested no attack on the Constitution, which is what she specifically
swore to defend, but clearly the oath uses “Constitution” as a metonymy
for the nation as a whole.
Abetting
this impression is the fact that Omar on the same day demonstrated her
hostility to the country that she has sworn to protect and defend. She
tweeted the Carlin video with the comment: “It’s no laughing matter,”
just so we’re clear that she didn’t mean any joke. She is seriously
offering the claim that the country to which she has sworn allegiance
and which she represents in its Legislative Branch is just a
war-mongering blunderer that is not good at anything besides being
militarily aggressive. Meanwhile, she invites the military aggression of
one of America’s foremost enemies. If the Islamic Republic of Iran
turns out to be not good at much of anything besides war against the
United States, would Ilhan Omar have any problem with that?
Despite
all this and more, it is, of course, inconceivable that any treason
charges will ever be brought against Ilhan Omar. Her hatred of America
plays well among the American Leftists who share it, and the Democratic
Party establishment would condemn any such charges as a partisan attack
and the attacker as a racist right-wing white supremacist and enemy of
all that is good. Meanwhile, the past week has given us abundant
examples of how the Democrats hate Trump with such burning intensity
that they are willing to lionize and mourn a man who was responsible for
the deaths of at least 600 Americans, as well as for a great deal more
terrorist activity. So what’s a little treason among America-hating
friends?