How the Left Helped Create Joe McCarthy

nationalreview.com ^ | 2/16/2015 | Ron Capshaw

[pfflier]

I think the media in particular was out to get Nixon. He sent Agnew after the "Nattering nay-bobs of negativism" and that was the beginning of the end.

You may be right about his personality flaw but I think any Republican would have been subjected to the same viscious character attack. How they would have reacted we'll never know. But it is likely that carter would have remained in the backwaters of American politics and the Middle East would be very different right now.

[samtheman]

I sometimes wonder if the west needed to see just how evil islam can be with the overthrow of the Shah of Iran... though of course, it could be argued, even seeing hasn’t done all that much for a lot of westerners.

[pfflier]

What we view as tolerance is viewed as weakness to be exploited by militant islam.

Western values do not grasp that difference and we pretend we have the moral high ground when, in reality, we don't have the courage to stop it.

[Sherman Logan]

The messages in question were mostly sent from 42 to 45, with a few as late as 48, like I said.

Attempts to decrypt them continues as late as 1980, but no new messages were intercepted after 48.

The whole program was due to the Reds screwing up and using duplicate one-time pads. Once they figured this out, they went back to pads used only once and decryption again became impossible.

[RckyRaCoCo]

History has proven McCarthy was right, the stench of liberalism had just began to infiltrate.