Seeds of Intellectual Destruction

American Thimker ^ | January 6, 2007 | By J.R. Dunn

[Just mythoughts]

Do you remember exactly what day it was that old lady senator, from New York took to the Senate floor and with her New York newspaper ask the question of President Bush, what did you know and when did you know it? In my mind that was the opening salvo for the leftist going off the proverbial cliff.

[popdonnelly]

Excellent analysis in this article. Unfortunately, we've allowed the Left to take over academia.

[hemogoblin]

It willl take several more 9/11s to sufficiently wake up the nation, and shut up the "intelligentsia."

Our capacity to shut off the alarm clock and go back to sleep is just amazing.

[trek]

"Hegemonist doctrine has no place in it for phenomena like Al-Quaeda and the Jihadists. There is no way to fit them into the theory, because to acknowledge that a tangible, undeniable threat exists is to negate every other element of the thesis. So they are ignored. No solution is offered, no suggestions are made. They are simply pushed aside as irrelevant. The doctrine that underlies all opposition to American policies in the War on Terror has absolutely nothing to say about the forces that triggered the war, forces that have already attacked two American cities and have promised to return."

Good piece. Sadly, the disease this author so clearly diagnoses has only one cure: a terrorist attack that kills a lot more Americans. For only then will the American people realize that they have been hoodwinked by the provacateurs on left.

[Cannoneer No. 4]

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[PGalt]

OUTSTANDING!

Hooray J.R.Dunn!

[M Kehoe]

We can not allow the left in America to destroy this country from within. No matter what it takes.

5.56mm

[Maine Mariner]

Jessie Jackson and others were opposed to any type of military action even in Afganistan. I remember quite clearly that within a day or so after 9/11 he and others were talking about taking Bin Ladin and Omar to the World Court for trial.

I am sure many on the left applauded the death and distruction of the pentagon. They felt we deserved it.

There is probably very little we can do about left wing domination of many academic departments at our colleges and universities. Left wing students preselect themselves to attend leftwing programs with leftwing professors.
There is one small ray of hope-we saw it yesterday and the day before: the former lacrosse player at Duke suing the professor who failed him presumably because he was a lacrosse player. Parents and students need to be prepared to that more offend.

[Maine Mariner]

Correction

Parents and students need to be prepared to that more often

[silverleaf]

Unfortunately I believe that "Bush Derangement Syndrome" has become so entrenched that it will infect another generation or two regardless of the magnitude of national crisis we confront.

The next attacks- crises for the next 10 years or more - will be pinned on "Bush's failures" in policy and execution.

The relentless battering down of George Bush, a good and decent man, as a "liar" - has become one of the democrat party's strongest rallying forces. It worked for the most recent round of elections and gave them "control". They will not easily find another platform.

[lonestar67]

This article is totally correct. It is however naieve not to recognize that many conservatives such as Pat Buchannan contribute mightily to this probelm.

Had paleoconservatives not broken ranks with Bush the Shehans could not have prevailed as far as they have.

America is an idea which is inevitably correct. It is hegemonic because it is a better idea than any other currently circulating on the globe. Great ideas bring a responsibility of defense. A mixture of reactionaries left and right are unwilling to defend the idea of America and so they both hide behind things such as realism and multiculturalism.

[o_zarkman44]

The Hippies of the 1960,s have been able to revive the cottage industry that made their message of peace and love the rally cry in the 1960's.

They must be eating their heart out thinking that they have been given, despite the decadence of capitalism, much prosperity and peace, without sacrifice or consequence.

The bastions of liberal lies and activity are safe from the vaporization of an Al Queda attack. Only the capitalist element of the war machine is accountable or vulnerable, so they think.

They are dead wrong. Sharia law will kill the hippies just as dead as quickly as any other co-operative infidel.
How can we communicate that when everyone is under a pharmaceutical influenced feel good stupor?

[fat city]

Great piece! Thanks!

[Max01]

I agree especially regarding Buchanan. However, Buchanan did help (not his intent) Bush get elected President because those blue hair Floridians could not figure those Butterfly ballots. The best of that is that the Dems were the ones who made up the butterfly ballot to begin with.

[IronJack]

I recall ... thinking ... [i]t was the end of the postwar flirtation with apostasy, ... the end of political frivolity, the birth of a new kind of patriotism, one annealed by fire, one that would become part of framework of the country, one that would last.

I thought the same thing: here is an event that will -- that MUST -- unite us, a horror next to which all mundane concerns pale. There is no place in THIS world for petty bickering and self-serving partisanship.

Man, was I wrong ...

[Just mythoughts]

It willl take several more 9/11s to sufficiently wake up the nation, and shut up the "intelligentsia." Our capacity to shut off the alarm clock and go back to sleep is just amazing.

There was a time when I expected this 'route', however, with all the glee and we won by these lunatic terrorist leftists after this past election, I have to wonder if there is not some sort of 'league' made with them to keep liberals in power by no more 9/11 style attacks on this nation.

There has been a flocking (Rick Warren, Nelson of FL, JFKerry, Spector, etc.) to these leaders in the Middle East, (that fund, promote and house terrorists) by the declared election winners, one has to wonder what was agreed to. Liberals intend on keeping their power and they know better than anyone that an attack upon this soil anything like 9/11 will be their loss.

We have entered a 'new' phase and our liberals will need more than anything to put forth their 'peace, peace, peace' dress and that will not happen if the terrorists hit US again.

Clintons administration was all about the demonetization of the 'right', and they have not changed their spots. I expect that the liberals will start out with their own special kind of 'just-us' and those of the 'rich' will become their face of evil and retribution. Interesting though isn't it, that Bill Clinton is totally obsessed with his new found wealth, wonder if he will take a vow of poverty?

[drhogan]

the problem with Dunn's analysis is that it only covers the sins of the left, and ignores any weaknesses or errors on the right. if a person reads the neocon's new american century manifesto, it is hard to think of anything but British imperialism. Brit imperialism wasn't all bad, but it is not necessarily the model that we should follow.
i initially thought the invasion of Iraq was the right course of action, but, to say the least, there have been some real errors in the non-military aspects of the war.
Dunn ignores all these factors, but they are part of why the American public turned against the war in iraq.

[trek]

"The relentless battering down of George Bush, a good and decent man, as a "liar" - has become one of the democrat party's strongest rallying forces."

Maybe, but the essense of the "lying" charge is that the war on terror is a sham (think Al Gore: "they played on our fears.."). The Dems have tried to separate the war in Iraq from the broader war on terror, but this is the kind of mistake the Republicans make. Subtleties like this are lost on the average voter.

The Democrats have bet big that there will not be another terrorist attack. Look at Nancy Pelosi's coronation. It was a bunch of syrupy pap about the children. If we get hit big and there are 10s of thousands of American citizens dead in the streets, the Democrats are screwed. The American people will want a military leader not a mommy.

[Republic Rocker]

Of course DHogan...... however America resolve has been weakened from within to lengths that have caused failures since Viet Nam.... It takes a courages hero like Reagan to stand up to these obstacles such as his handling of the Cold War.

Had Bush Sr. moved in and finished Saddam in '91 we would not be here. Although I can not predict where we would be as the middle east is a mystery to most, I would bet we would be further down the road of struggle towards stablity over there. The pieces to that puzzle would be a little more complete.

But from within and abroad we caved into PC. Our resolve was weaken by what this article explains and it has been happening ever since.

Sometimes i feel the bigger enemy is from within our own borders, our own ranks. It is the political war that we fight here and with Europe our allies that determines our success in the middle east.

The table has been turned and those looking for AMerica's defeat are winning the race. What we can do is beyond me. Shall we wait till the left puts citizens in dire straights? Another attack is what I must hope for to shine the light on the naive public? We are in a awful place, a dangerous place. And only survival will motivate the masses to go forth in ending the cancer that lies in the desert of the middle east.....