Posted on 10/17/2009 9:44:48 AM PDT by GOP_Lady
“Anyone, particularly in a commencement address to high schoolers, but otherwise in any serious (and it was serious) speech, who is going to quote something to learn from from Mao, MUST know that she MUST couple that “teachable moment” with a full and robust condemnation of all about Mao that is condemnable.
Also it is not like whatever insights Mao had were unique to him and that some other more suitable and less ironic source could not be found.”
But all about Mao is not “condemnable”. There is no better exponent of guerrilla warfare I have seen. The USMC apparently recognized some merit there as well, as his treatise on the subject was once part of a line officer’s training.
Anyway, the point of my post eludes you so completely that there is no point in further effort.
Perhaps something somewhere needs to be shephardized, so the day is not a total loss?
Agreed. I do not dispute that these people are committed communists, and therefore toxic.
Study of their methods and philosophies is important though. This reveals means to defeat them, and to anticipate what they will attempt next.
The scope of coercions and confiscations they presently seek cannot be accomplished without a political police, a terror, or more likely both. That is where we are heading.
Worth noting your graph is narrowly defined to camp deaths and executions (murdered - as the chart states). These numbers are therefore conservative estimates.
Famine and plagues resulting from Communist incompetence are not included.
USSR deaths from famines - notoriously in the Ukraine - were significantly higher.
PRC deaths from famine would nearly double Mao’s statistics.
Can’t happen here? Look to California.
(I’m presuming) that photo isn’t from 1947...but it sure does sum
up the totality of Mao and his eager minions.
(I just supect color film wasn’t that common in 1947 China...
heck, probably even less common during 1949 until Nixon flew in!!!
Well, unless color film was needed for state celebration to show that
“The East Is Red”)
I cracked up when CNN said that even Karl Rove said that Dubya suggested
that he (Rove) read a biography on Mao.
LOL...I suspect it was the book titled “Mao, The Unknown Story”.
Which is a book that does a pretty good job of showing that Mao starved
a myriad of peasants to death.
Why/How? Confiscating most of the rice raised by the peasants,
selling it on the world markets for $$$, then using the proceeds to
pay for getting “The Bomb”.
Yes, many peasants starved when the rice left to them was insufficient
to sustain their hard-labor lives.
IIRC, Dubya was seen carrying that book...so I suspect it is the
one he recommended to Rove. (just my naive speculation)
To SC DOC, reformedliberal, smedley64,
Thanks for the commentary. I spent some time googling the net and
couldn’t find even a trace of a link between Atwater and Mao.
(of course, it could be my negative results are just an indicator
of my amateur status as an internet enthusiast).
When I first heard Anita Dunn’s apologia (and blaming the dead,
conservative, white guy Lee Atwater), I said this to myself.
H-LL, Lee Atwater was a good ole boy from The South. And Southerners
love guns.
So if Lee Atwater quoted anything from Mao, I’d be inclined to think
it was...
“Power comes from the barrel of a gun.”.
Y’all have enlightened me and the proposal that Anita is confused...
and Atwater was a fan of “The Art of War”...makes more sense.
I (and I hope many) will watch Glenn Beck today (MON 10-19-09 at
5PM EST; rebroadcast at 2AM EST) to see if he addresses Anita Dunn’s
“Hey, that was Lee Atwaters love of Mao and Mother Teresa I was
talking about...AND IT WAS ALL JUST A BIT OF IRONY!!!”.
I can’t watch that. Did someone turn up the volume on her lip licking and she sticks her tongue out as if she Gene Simmons.
Very annoying
Jubba the slut? Man, I could not watch that video after about 10 seconds.
The sound and view of her flapping her tongue were driving me nuts.
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