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A Kennedy by Any Other
Name
is a Churchill
The Fifth Column/Frank
Salvato, Managing Editor |
February 4, 2005
- There is an anti-American attitude prevalent among
the liberal left. Its severity increases as one ventures further toward the
extreme left of liberalism. It also increases as one ventures closer to any
college campus. The irony here is that a group of people who pride
themselves on being tolerant and open-minded, enlightened if you will, have
become the definition of intolerance. They defend the indefensible and twist
every negative situation into America’s fault. Say hello to the “blame
America first” crowd.
We saw this intellectual darkness gather its voice together in the 1960’s.
They were the anti-war and anti-establishment crowd. They hated Lyndon
Johnson, a Democrat, as well as Richard Nixon, a Republican. They were
rebellious to a fault many times just for the sake of opposition regardless
of how stupid their opposing viewpoint happened to be. “Tune in, turn on and
drop out,” was the motto of the day as expressed by one of the icons of “the
movement,” Timothy Leary. It was the era of ideologically motivated riots,
the militant Black Panthers, the Weathermen and the “Chicago 7.”
In protesting a war that they insisted was illegal and immoral the “tolerant
and enlightened” liberal left diligently undermined, belittled and
demoralized US troops both in the field and upon their arrival home. ‘Baby
killers’ was a common phrase hurled at young men and women returning from
the warfront, where they lived through hell on earth. As hateful effrontery,
along with spit and garbage, was hurled at our service men and women, these
liberal activists not only proved their intolerance and lack of
enlightenment but exposed their roles as the intellectually dwarfed pawns of
a budding socialist and globalist movement, their heroes Che Guevara and
Fidel Castro.
In hindsight the country now understands that the Vietnam War was a battle
in the larger Cold War. The US stood by the treaties we entered into with
countries that were threatened by the advancement of communism. John F.
Kennedy, a Democrat, understood and recognized this threat. He recognized it
in Cuba in the Russians move to base nuclear missiles just 90 miles from our
border. America’s involvement in the Vietnam War was a result of the Kennedy
Administration not the Nixon Administration. Contrary to revisionist
history, Kennedy and Johnson got us into Vietnam. Nixon got us out. While
the liberal left celebrated “peace with honor,” the consequences of their
“victory,” the killing fields, Pol Pot and the North Vietnamese
“re-education camps,” saw millions slaughtered and tortured. Such was the
prize reaped by a victorious extreme and liberal left.
Today we are seeing the same intellectual darkness gather again. Ironically,
two of the architects of the disaster that was “the movement” of the 1960’s
are chief among the voices of this darkness today.
John Kerry was a main player in the contrived Winter Soldier Investigations.
He lied in his testimony before Congress and committed acts of treason by
meeting with enemy representatives in Paris while still in the US military.
Today he has condemned the liberation of Iraq while ignoring the killing
fields of Saddam Hussein, opting instead to focus on only one of the
multiple reasons given for removing Saddam Hussein from power, WMD. He has
even gone as far as to caution Americans not to “over-hype” the success of
the first free elections in Iraq in over 50 years. In Kerry’s “enlightened”
view we should ignore the Iraqi people celebrating in the streets at their
chance to embrace freedom. Then again, in Kerry’s “enlightened” view the UN
Inspections were working. In reality the UN inspectors couldn’t have found
the nose on Barbara Streisand’s face.
While Teddy Kennedy claims to be of the “majority party” – how a lesser
number equates to a majority is a quandary – it is safe to say that he has
never been bothered by the mundane problems of the everyman. To him, a
crisis at home involves bridges, family members being jailed for beating
neighbor girls to death with nine irons and whether the new jib came in for
the sloop.
Today Kennedy claims the US military is mired in a tactical “quagmire” just
as loudly and illegitimately as he did in the 1960’s when he was protesting
his brother’s war. He is doing it for the same reasons as well, not because
it is the truth but for political gain. His tired and unfounded conspiracy
theories about how we came to be in Iraq established, Kennedy is now
demanding that President Bush expose an “exit strategy” for disengaging our
troops from Iraq. The two obvious eyebrow-raisers here are: 1) we all know
our “exit strategy” – a stable, self-sufficient, democratic Iraq, and 2)
publicizing our military strategies is definitely not a product of
“enlightened” thinking. Instead it is incredibly stupid. It gives our enemy
information on just how long they have to hold out until they can be
victorious. If an award for incompetence in military strategy were created,
Kennedy would be honored for lifetime achievement. He has never been on the
winning side of any US conflict and has demonstrated a desire to aid the
enemy with his rhetoric and obstructionism. Why in God’s name should we ever
listen to this man in matters of conflict?
But perhaps University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill has achieved the
pinnacle of extreme liberal “enlightenment.” Churchill suggested that the
3000+ people massacred on September 11th deserved to die at the hands of
Islamo-Fascist terrorists. He justified al Qaeda’s actions by being critical
of US foreign policy. In explaining his position he quoted that sage of the
“enlightened left,” mass-murderer Charles Manson: “What goes around comes
around.” He even went as far as to say that the, "technocrats of empire
working in the World Trade Center were the equivalent of little [Adolph]
Eichmanns." A more obvious and loathsome example of the “blame America
first” crowd may never be exhibited.
Recently, the American Indian Movement (AIM) exposed Churchill, the
coordinator of American Indian studies at UC, as a fraud. After a 25-year
internal investigation of Churchill, AIM condemned Churchill’s writings and
called for educators to remove his books from their programs and schools
stating that he was, “deceitful and treacherous” and “a white man
masquerading as an Indian.” Churchill was expelled from the International
Indian Treaty Council in 1986 and from AIM in 1993.
Churchill is an ignorantly evil fraud of a man and the UC should terminate
his employment, not because of his inflammatory and irresponsible statements
about those who perished on September 11th, his right to free speech remains
inalienable, but because he is a charlatan.
As for Kennedy and Kerry, funny how two men, two ideological dinosaurs, from
one of the smallest and least populated states in the country can wreak so
much havoc on our nation. We certainly don’t have to have a patriotic litmus
test but we don’t have to embrace those who hate our country. To borrow a
phrase from Bill Clinton, it’s time for “change” in Massachusetts.
Related Reading:
Text of Churchill’s Statement
http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36~53~2686093,00.html
Is Prof Under Fire Really An Indian?
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=42700
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