Posted by David Horowitz @ Saturday 20 August 2005, 11:47 am
Like the Bourbons the left forgets nothing and remembers nothing. In today’s column, Dowd runs over the Vietnam precedent for the Iraq war without a glimmer of acknowledgment that thanks to her and John Kerry and Jane Fonda and all the Cindy Sheehans and Michael Moores of the day, two and a half million Camobodians and Vietnamese were slaughtered at the hands of the Communists because the United States set a deadline and went home.It is striking that the same people who ignored the warnings of the Nixon Adminisration that a bloodbath would follow an American withdrawal are thumbing their nose at that inevitability today in regard to Iraq. It is equally striking that neither the Bush Administration nor spokesmen on the war like Newt Gingrich are reminding "liberals" and the country at large of that grim result.
It amazing how fiercely the intellectual classes are wedded to the fantasy of reliving the bloodbath without the slightest awareness that that is what they are doing. The reason is obvious. They are even more wedded to the fantasy of their own righteousness and the false memory of those events that they have written into history. But then sacrificing thousands and millions to an abstract idea is what the left is all about.
This upon the restoration of Louis XVIII