Kind of reminds me of the no WMD rant we hear today!
Posted on 06/01/2004 5:27:52 PM PDT by doug from upland
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Truman should have planned for the peace before starting the war. [/sarcasm]
I imagine that is exactly how they felt in Poland, E. Germany, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, .....
Kind of reminds me of the no WMD rant we hear today!
This is indeed for real.
I was recollecting 'Mid-Century', in which he more or less defends America against the Reds.
It's been 40 years; hard to believe how the time goes!
You're right, I believe - he was anti-Stalin, but a left sympathizer.
The thing that slays me is the way the PC/leftist/liberal crowd valorizes our conduct in WWII while our conduct in Iraq is demonized.
NPR did a piece on Ernie Pyle over the weekend, and they were getting all moony over casualties in the Air War with returning Fortresses firing red flares, and the waiting for them, and so on. No mention that these guys were slaughtering innocent civilians by the thousands - tens of thousands!
I watched a show about "Bull" Halsey, who called outright for the genocide of the Japanese - "When I am done Japanese will be a language spoken only in hell" Imagine! Actually, I think he was a little over the top even then. They showed him at some kind of civic leader pep talk, where he humorously did a one-up on "the only good Indian is a dead Indian" He said the only good Japanese was one who was dead for a month - a little abstract, but nonetheless I felt like the civilian audience was taken aback.
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Why am I reminded of Ann Coulter's book Treason ??
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It's been a VERY long time,since I've thought of him,but that's my still vivid memory...he was a faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaar lefty.I don't know anything at all about his "defending" America,which might have come at a later time.But IF you have the stomach to read his "USA",you'll see that his writings weren't pro-American.
Even as a kid,I was rapidly anti-Commie and having to read dos Passos' works,make me want to shred the books.
Far too few people know any history at all and much of what they think they know about certain eras,is false.
Becuase so many Americans really ARE traitors,now.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1145878/posts
Link for lurkers/posters to Mark Levin's article about The New York Times pushing for cut-and-run
because America was doing everything wrong in occupied Germany in November 1945 (IIRC).
I read 'Mid-Century' before I read his USA trilogy, and was astounded to find him such a commie! lol!
Orwell was a more subtle man than you credit him, imo.
He saw through the commie hoax before his comrades - give him that.
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