Posted on 01/29/2007 7:42:23 PM PST by smoothsailing
Aquarius Sunset
by Cal Thomas Posted Jan 30, 2007
The ideologically decrepit anti-war crowd returned to Washington last weekend for a reunion. The older among them abandoned hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions of Vietnamese to imprisonment, torture, death and re-education camps. Their demonstrations were encouraging to the communist Vietnamese, sending the message that America lacked the will to win. These aging hippies and their progeny now want to do the same to millions of Iraqis, who have democratically elected their leaders.
This is the sunset of the “Age of Aquarius.” Yesterday, when they were young, they were the pampered generation that eschewed self-control for self-indulgence. They were (and are) so vain; they probably thought the world was about them. They were the redeeming generation that would save their parents from their sins by ending war, curing racism and cleaning the air and water. Their failure has long been obvious to all but them. To them, intentions, not success, are paramount. Because they believe their intentions are noble, they absolve themselves from the negative consequences of their actions.
As with the Vietnam anti-war protests, several of the same Hollywood actors spoke against the effort to make Iraq a stable and independent nation. Hollywood is the land of make-believe where love means never having to say you’re sorry and acting means never having to take responsibility for your words and behavior, which are written and directed by others. These stars live behind gates with security alarms and guards who protect their privileged lives.
Is there anyone else’s freedom these celebrities would defend? Do any other lives have value beyond their own? Since none of the older demonstrators took responsibility for what occurred in the aftermath of the Vietnam War, would any like to pledge now that if their protests help embolden the insurgents and Taliban to fight on until Iraq is in their clutches they will accept blame?
Why do these people always oppose America’s efforts to defend itself and others? Why did they not protest in Washington, or in Baghdad, when Saddam Hussein was practicing genocide and his sons were raping and torturing their fellow Iraqis? Will we ever see an anti-Taliban protest? How about a demonstration against suicide bombers, or even those who produce and detonate roadside bombs in Iraq? Why do these people think only their country is evil?
This is the doctrine of the privileged and the pampered. It is salvation on the cheap. It makes the protestors feel good, even righteous, but does nothing to solve the problem, which isn’t the United States, but a very real enemy that intends to kill us. Unlike Vietnam, the Islamofascists won’t leave us alone if we leave Iraq before stability is established. They will send more fanatics to our shores. Watch the TV drama “24” for what could be our prophetic and imminent future with a nuclear device exploding in major cities. Having concluded we don’t have the stomach to fight them on their turf, they might understandably deduce we are even less willing to fight them on ours.
While President Bush may have chosen Iraq and Afghanistan to counterattack in this war, the war would have come -- and, indeed, had already come prior to the attacks on these two countries -- had he decided to do nothing.
“Peace is controversial,” said Jesse Jackson last weekend. His comment has about as much relevance in an age of terror as a declaration against lust. Peace doesn’t result when America does nothing to confront evil. Peace comes through facing and defeating evil wherever and whenever we can. If freedom is not on the march against tyranny, then tyranny will be on the march against freedom. Neither is static. Peace doesn’t “happen.” To the extent peace can be attained on earth, it arrives through strength and willpower.
Forty years ago, the protestors pledged to achieve:
Harmony and understanding
Sympathy and trust abounding
No more falsehoods or derisions
Golden living dreams of visions
Mystic crystal revelation
And the mind’s true liberation
They liberated neither their minds, nor the world. The Vietnamese who were murdered were not liberated. Today’s terrorists will not be defeated if we embrace the inane doctrines of the protestors.
A better song for them might be Brenda Lee’s “I’m Sorry,” the first part of which goes:
“I’m sorry, so sorry
That I was such a fool…”
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Copyright © 2007 HUMAN EVENTS. All Rights Reserved.
When reporter asked Fonda questions she looked so arrogant and obnoxious with her idiotic answers. Then he asked the empty headed Robbins about all the killing Sadaam did and can't remember other question and of course Robbin is such an idiot his answer was that the reporter was so young he should go enlist!! Ha! Great answer. Guess without scripts these aholes are totally lost!
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We all are in deep trouble....... trust me!
The Marxist appear to have won.
They've been here for nearly 100 years, they took over all the institutions,............ the electronic media, publishing, the schools, law, much of the judicial, the State Department and other governmental groups .......... this country is dead!
Really!
Would you title the exchange between you and your relative "Firing Line"? LOL
Great article. I'm ashamed to be in that degeneration although I didn't partake of any of their swill and came out of it all a conservative. However, many of them are still wearing the long greasy hair, hippie glasses, tie dyes and bell bottoms in their hearts even if they are dressed in Armani physically today (and their spoiled kids can't seem to get the tie dyes done right now either).
Good one Cal...having lived in SF during the 60's, the hippie libs have not changed, well maybe, they are even more looney and dangerous than before.
I know many of you baby boomers get sick of hearing the generation before you, and the generation after you complaining about boomer values and the activities of the 60s.
I certainly do! Where was this "greatest generation" when their children were ripping their clothes off, doing drugs, making love not war and protesting against their own country? Were they so exhausted from saving the rest of the world they let our country fall to these little heathens? Luckily, I never did those things, but had I tried my parents certainly would not have sat back and said, oh look she's expressing herself...isn't that sweet.
From a gen x perspective what else are we to think???
That is understandable I guess. What do your parents and grandparents say? My children, about your age, know that the 60s hippies were a small fringe of society that made a lot of noise and wreaked havoc at the direction of the commies in CONgress and those disgusting halls of higher learning.
Modern liberalism literally comes out of the counterculture movement of the late 60s early 70s.
You are correct I guess, but the plan was in place long before the late 60s. The link below will show you what the goals were and how they planned to implement them. Pay particular attention to #19 to see the truth about the reason behind the anti-war sentiment of the late 60s and 70s. There was some, but not much opposition until Nixon became President and set out to WIN the Vietnam war. That is when the real problems began.
Current Communist Goals from the Congressional Record 1-10-63.
I realize not all GenXers, but many are, in the streets today. There are good people from every generation. We simply never hear about them.
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