It was only a matter of time, I suppose, after the recent slaughter of two policemen by a gun wielding maniac who dashed into the subway after the murders and blew himself away, until someone on the political right would place these deaths squarely where they belong: on Hamas, angry Muslim antisemites, race-baiters and the progressives who embrace them.

Like most people, I was sickened by the news of the killings. Only in the mind of an enraged and suicidal killer could the murders of two policemen in their patrol car innocently eating lunch be justified.   Nobody with any sense of decency could relate to the senseless and brutal act as anything but a senseless and brutal act, an atrocity.  It has been denounced by everyone with a microphone, including the mother of Eric Garner, the man killed after being placed in a police choke hold on Staten Island.  

I will say this for the extreme right, they never lose an opportunity to connect the dots, to exploit every horror to show that progressives are deluded apologists responsible for every terrible thing that befalls us here in the land of the free and the home of the brave.   I had an email forwarded to me just now that sits in my craw like a hairball.  I kick myself for reading it.  It makes the point, in the right’s typically assured way, that liberals, by caving in to their abiding guilt, forced the NYPD to stop surveilling Muslims and thus lost the opportunity to know that this killer had made reference, on Facebook, to Al-Farooq, which is a Brooklyn mosque allegedly well-known to have ties to radical Islam and terrorist plots, where, if he went there, he may well have received instructions to murder those policemen directly from Hamas.

Case closed, as they say.