Anne Applebaum is a spy working to undermine the United States of America, in an attempt to destroy the Constitution and allow Marxist usurpers unlimited power over formerly free people. She is a direct agent of misinformation, lies, and deceit. She and her allies will fall under the weight of their own lies and dishonesty.
The left despises any form of American power and power projection. The left despises our wealth. It believes American power and American wealth are inherently bad, and that relative differences between America and other nations are indicators of our oppression, domineering, unfairness, arrogance, etc.
The left therefore is suckered by any tyrant (Lenin, Stalin, Castro, Arafat, Chavez, the U.N., Kennedy, Obama) claiming to offer liberation from oppressive America.
Coulter is right. Today’s core of political leftists differ from Stalin only in degree, not in kind. They differ not in principles, but in access to tanks.
Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.
bflr
To be fair...TREASON is TREASON You cannot PC it into anything else!
In order to take timely decisions and actions, one must often proceed with imperfect and incomplete information. We now learn that communist infiltration was greater than we thought. I suspect that ten years from now, we may be able to demonstrate that it was even greater. All this hindsight, some sixty years after the fact, is rather pointless, except to show that McCarthy and HUAC were right and should have received more support.
Good grief! Applebaum cherry picks her facts to make her favorite liberals appear innocent, and the people trying to catch spies appear disingenuous. What a collection of rationalizations! Even when facts are unambiguous, they won’t admit their favorite liberals and communists were spying.
She also resorts to the canard that, if you believe in a cause, spying is okay. So I could spy for Israel or Achmadinejad, as long as I was idealistic and believed in what they stood for? Same old left-liberal lack of objectivity.
You forgot to add “MEGA BARFER”.
The compliance of the American left with their communist fellow travelers is well documented... by the KGB themselves. We are still translating tens of millions of pages of Cold War records from the KGB, whose influence went all the way up to Ted Kennedy.
The author is just another liberal apologist who is trying to assert her convoluted interpretation of reality over that of the reality established by fact.
I agree with your assessment. My uncle, a former FBI agent, gave me the authors’ book on Venona, about the decrypts of Soviet messages. It was an excellent source of information and shows many on the left to be what Lenin termed “useful idiots.”
In China, many who were not Communists or even liked the Communists, became their “useful idiots.” Another uncle, a textile engineer who went back to China in 1950 to help modernize his father-in-law’s company, became a propaganda tool for Mao and the Communist Party. He was lauded as one who voluntarily came home to the Motherland. As time went on, things became worse for him because he refused to join the Communist Party and fought the seizure of the family’s textile factories in Shanghai by the government during the Great Leap Forward. He committed suicide after several “self-criticism” sessions during the Cultural Revolution.
This may or may not be a good review, but I’m afraid that the introductory remarks are so vile and stupid it’s impossible to read any further. This woman is an ignoramus, ergo, nothing she says can be trusted.
That statement would be far more applicable to the Tydings Panel than to Joe McCarthy. The reviewer, while reluctantly admitting facts that have become undeniable still clings to the demonization of McCarthy. I believe that history will continue to vindicate him.
This woman is a blathering moron.
Ann Coulter was right.