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12-31-2002, 04:27 PM
JWR.com
Dec. 31, 2002
by David Horowitz
As we look towards a future filled with the clouds of war
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As we approach the year's end, and look towards a future filled with the clouds of war, it is sobering (and saddening) to consider how many Americans are ready to betray their country.
The other day I was on a panel with Frank Mankiewicz, former Bobby Kennedy press secretary, former National Public Radio chief, and the man who persuaded George McGovern to run for president in 1972 on a platform of "America Come Home." This was a thinly disguised translation of the left's slogan "Bring the Troops Home," which the radicals who staffed McGovern's campaign had designed to help the Communists win in Vietnam. This is not to say that everybody who endorsed that slogan or the McGovern candidacy also embraced the goal of enabling the Communists to win. It is just that that was the foreseeable practical effect of the policy, and those who endorsed it should learn from their mistakes. Two and a half million Indochinese peasants were slaughtered by the Communist victors just as presidents Nixon and Johnson had warned.
there is an element of betrayal that comes from self-deception as well (http://jewishworldreview.co m/cols/horowitz.html)
Dec. 31, 2002
by David Horowitz
As we look towards a future filled with the clouds of war
http://www.NewsAndOpinion.c om |
As we approach the year's end, and look towards a future filled with the clouds of war, it is sobering (and saddening) to consider how many Americans are ready to betray their country.
The other day I was on a panel with Frank Mankiewicz, former Bobby Kennedy press secretary, former National Public Radio chief, and the man who persuaded George McGovern to run for president in 1972 on a platform of "America Come Home." This was a thinly disguised translation of the left's slogan "Bring the Troops Home," which the radicals who staffed McGovern's campaign had designed to help the Communists win in Vietnam. This is not to say that everybody who endorsed that slogan or the McGovern candidacy also embraced the goal of enabling the Communists to win. It is just that that was the foreseeable practical effect of the policy, and those who endorsed it should learn from their mistakes. Two and a half million Indochinese peasants were slaughtered by the Communist victors just as presidents Nixon and Johnson had warned.
there is an element of betrayal that comes from self-deception as well (http://jewishworldreview.co m/cols/horowitz.html)