Wack-job of the Week
another dodged bullet heard from
Horowitz: On Christmas Day, former U.S. senator and Democratic presidential candidate George McGovern wrote a letter to the editor of the Los Angeles Times (and probably many other papers) calling for an American surrender in Iraq .
Horowitz traces this ‘sentiment’ back to Henry Wallace’s Progressive Party in 1948 [“One, two, three, four, we don’t want another war/Five, six, seven, eight, win with Wallace in ’48.” ] through the anti-Viet Nam War activists, “who thought the Communists were liberating Vietnam in the same way Michael Moore thinks Abu Musab al-Zarqawi is liberating Iraq,” right up to Kerry, Terry McAuliffe and the rest of their ilk.
Horowitz continues:
Explained McGovern: “Once we left Vietnam and quit bombing its people they became friends and trading partners.” [1]
Actually, that is not what happened. Four months after the Democrats cut off aid to Cambodia and Vietnam in January 1975, both regimes fell to the Communist armies. Within three years the Communist victors had slaughtered two-and-a-half million peasants in the Indochinese peninsula, paving the way for their socialist paradise. The blood of those victims is on the hands of the Americans who forced this withdrawal: John Kerry, Ted Kennedy, Howard Dean, and George McGovern – and antiwar activists like myself.
It is true that Vietnam eventually became a trading partner (“friend” is another matter). But this was not true that it occurred “once we left and quit bombing its people.” Before that took place, a Republican president confronted the Soviet Union in Europe and Afghanistan and forced the collapse of the Soviet empire. It was only then, after the Cold War enemy and support of the Vietnamese Communists had been defeated, that they accommodated themselves to co-existence with the United States .
...a politics of surrender is not a politics of peace.
[1] Los Angeles Times, December 25, 2004.
ThanQ! ReliaPundit
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