Stew312856
17th November 2011, 08:25
We are seeing the greatest swell of Leftist action in some time now.
Where can we learn from our mistakes?
I would submit friends, citizens, allies, that there have been mistakes made by our forebears which we should avoid making again.
First, the Left's failure to decry Stalin's alliance with Hitler. Untold thousands died for this.
Second, the so-called Liberal Democratic Party's abandonment of Spain to Franco under Roosevelt and the beginning of the Second American Empire at the end of his Presidency with the beginning of our involvement in Vietnam.
Third, Joseph Kennedy's anti-interventionist policies toward all Europe, a vile racist tendency based in hyper-nationalism ('Keep our boys out of their war, we're too good to fight for them again') that is distinct from a true Social Justice movement.
Fourth, the transformation of the Peace Movement in the 1990's into a flacid and pathetic Absolute Pacifist Movement, with an absolute refusal to defend the refugees, Kurds, dissidents, and would-be rebels who were slaughtered by Sadaam Hussein in the final days of Gulf War I, a massacre George Bush I allowed to happen without any opposition.
Fifth and Six, Bosnia-Herzogevinia and Rwanda. Absolute disregard for human holocausts led by religious bigots under Fascist leadership which NATO and the UN only intervened in after massive public outcry, and then only when the situation suited them in terms of military hegemony in the region.
Seventh, of course, the pre-war protest about Gulf War II, totally out of touch and unable to counter blatant propaganda and lying to the American and British people not seen on a scale since the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution.
Where can we learn from our mistakes?
I would submit friends, citizens, allies, that there have been mistakes made by our forebears which we should avoid making again.
First, the Left's failure to decry Stalin's alliance with Hitler. Untold thousands died for this.
Second, the so-called Liberal Democratic Party's abandonment of Spain to Franco under Roosevelt and the beginning of the Second American Empire at the end of his Presidency with the beginning of our involvement in Vietnam.
Third, Joseph Kennedy's anti-interventionist policies toward all Europe, a vile racist tendency based in hyper-nationalism ('Keep our boys out of their war, we're too good to fight for them again') that is distinct from a true Social Justice movement.
Fourth, the transformation of the Peace Movement in the 1990's into a flacid and pathetic Absolute Pacifist Movement, with an absolute refusal to defend the refugees, Kurds, dissidents, and would-be rebels who were slaughtered by Sadaam Hussein in the final days of Gulf War I, a massacre George Bush I allowed to happen without any opposition.
Fifth and Six, Bosnia-Herzogevinia and Rwanda. Absolute disregard for human holocausts led by religious bigots under Fascist leadership which NATO and the UN only intervened in after massive public outcry, and then only when the situation suited them in terms of military hegemony in the region.
Seventh, of course, the pre-war protest about Gulf War II, totally out of touch and unable to counter blatant propaganda and lying to the American and British people not seen on a scale since the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution.