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.
RIght On Cal.
Wonderful article. I've sent it to a friend of mine, a US Army 06 stationed in Baghdad. We are "of that age" and it's nice to see in print what we've always known about the motives and destructive failures of the peace movement. He assure me it will get a wide circulation among his colleagues dismayed by what's happening over here. By the way, he reports that the surge is already seeing very good resukts.
You are so right.
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Associated Press -- March 31, 2005 --
NEW YORK - Jane Fonda says her 1972 visit to a North Vietnamese anti-aircraft gun site, an incident that brought her the nickname "Hanoi Jane," was a "betrayal" of American forces and of the "country that gave me privilege."
So she supposedly apologized two years ago to the military and to the country.
Now, this past weekend she acts like a bigger *sshole than ever.
The woman needs to be tarred and feathered...... then thrown out of the country.
OK. Obviously if an attacker could be subdued without killing him, I would do that. The question was at the endpoint of a series of questions that my relative had answered 'no' to. It was an extreme example, but I would kill someone else, if necessary, to protect my loved ones.
I popsted this on another board, and this was the response I got from a lib....
"That's true, the Republican cocksuckers Nixon and Kissinger abandoned the Vietnamese to imprisonment, torture, death and re-education camps.
Never trust a Republican!"
Orwell was right, the "Memory Hole" of the liberal mind truly DOES exist....
Well said.
My name for all these sickos that you mention is:
"Castle Communists"
That term/phrase hasn't caught on yet ...... but it should!!!!
Because that is what they are ...... they have accumulated wealth (who knows how?) and have "theirs", and they want to rule over everyone else who does not have wealth!
Is there any mass murdering dictator these old hippies will not suck up to?? Let the Killing Fields begin in the name of Peace!
Pray for W and Our Freedom Fighters
Thanks for the ping, Sleuthy. :-)
As an old hippie, I love this part....
~~~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.”~~~
From "Aquarius" to "Please carry us". Old hippies don't die, they just smell that way.
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Actually, the Jungle hat a young Sen. TED KENNDY had on in our Vietnam Photo together...
http://www.lzxray.com/guyer_set1.htm (5th Photo down)
...was presented to him by an Australian Army Brigade he had visited before coming to our 1st Cav Base Camp in South Vietnam's Central Highlands. He was being briefed on the war all over the country about what we were doing there and how it affected war refugees.
All this before Sen. TED KENNEDY went a "bit" off the Deep End.
Having already shaken hands with his brother JFK on the day he accepted his Party's Nomination for President in 1960 ...meeting his youngest brother so soon after JFK's Assassination was a big deal to me then.
Sen. TED KENNEDY's misbehaviors since have changed everything for everybody, including those who don't know it yet.
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That is great. Like you, I have friends serving in Iraq. I have sent them this as well. Some have already responded. I too, have gotten positive feedback about the surge.
ROFLOL!!!
...You made my day, I've got to remember that! :-)
Exactly!...Besides all the despicable things she's done and being a traitor to her own country, her actions and words on Saturday proves she is also a liar.
Great post, thank you for sharing it. It's good to hear from the people that are actually performing for our country.
Thanks for the *PING*
I love Cal.
I wish some Vet would find her and shove about a dozen dirty socks into her mouth.
Maybe then she would shut up ........ or just stop breathing.
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