[Interesting Times]

Article posted is 100% wrong. It was our fanatical fear of communism that caused us to create Bin Laden and his kind.

We didn't create Bin Laden, your leftist blame-the-victim spin notwithstanding.

Nor was our opposition to communism irrational.

My problem with McCarthy is that his excesses permitted the Left to seize the moral high ground, and to bludgeon conservatives with shrill accusations of "McCarthyism" whenever we opposed them. But the threat McCarthy identified was, and is, quite real.

[RobbyS]

McCarthy was simply the wrong man to lead the fight. He simply lacked the character. On the other hand, the whole Establishment was against him, probably because they knew that what he was saying was only too true, that men of high stature like Oppenheimer, men in every major institution were traitors.

[TBP]

Read Buckley and Bozell's McCarthy and His Enemies. It contains a listing of McCarthy's specific charges and the evidence about the cases. After you read that, you'll wonder what people were complaining about.

One irony is that one of the people McCarthy complained about was a woman named Dorothy Franklin, who was a member of, I think, three front groups. Needless to say, the Left defended Franklin and she became a standard example of "McCarthyism." In 1972, Franklin was working for one of the Democrat candidates for President when Nelson Rockefeller, of all peole, asked why that particular candidate was employing a former Communist.

Implicit admission that McCarthy was right.