Posted on 08/28/2005 7:19:53 AM PDT by veronica
Like most Texas reporters, I have made the pilgrimage to interview Cindy Sheehan and her anti war comrades parked in front of Crawford. One of the made-for-television signs held up behind Cindy during the news event I attended was particularly disturbing. "Iraq," read the sign held aloft by two prosperous looking white women,"is Arabic for Vietnam."
By holding this sign, I presume they would favor that the Iraq war end the same way the war in Vietnam ended. I also presume that this means they would not oppose the same fate for the people of Iraq that befell the people of Vietnam and Cambodia after the end of US involvement there, which was one of the more horrible in the sorry annals of twentieth century tyranny. But in 1975, we were told by the anti war crowd that, after all, they were only Asians, they probably couldn't understand democracy anyway, and knew it wouldn't work 'for them.' Its sad to see the same attitude repeated today, that its not worth the blood of white Americans like Casey Sheehan to win freedom and democracy for 'those people,' in this case, brown skinned Arab Muslims.
Even if you drink every last drop of the anti war Kool Aid, even if you are convinced that President Bush was ordered by the Chairman of Halliburton to start the Iraq war and that he intentionally lied to the American people about the existence of weapons of mass destruction, the simple fact is that today, there is demonstrably more freedom for the people of Iraq and for the people of Afghanistan, some 50 million brown skinned Muslims. Yes, there is dawdling over the drafting of an Iraqi constitution, but before April of 2003, metal shredders and rape rooms awaited any Iraqi who breathed the word 'constitution.' Yes, a brutal insurgency continues to threaten the Iraqi people, an insurgency which has killed some 25,000 Iraqi civilians since April of 2003. But Saddam Hussein, even by conservative estimates, butchered 1.5 million Iraqis during his 25 years in power (not counting the one million who died in the war he started with Iran). So Saddam and his goons killed an average of 60,000 people a year, while the insurgency has killed 25,000 in two and a half years. Despite the hand-wringing over the insurgency, the devil's arithmetic would indicate that life for the average Iraq is actually safer today than it was under Saddam. But they're brown skimmed Muslims, so not worthy of America's notice, let alone America's sacrifice.
President Bush is actually the greatest liberator of Muslims in history, considering that there weren't 50 million people in the entire MIddle East when Saladin beat back the Crusader hordes. But to the anti war activists, providing freedom from slavery, democratic and economic opportunity to brown skinned people isn't worth the sacrifice of white Americans. Good thing they weren't around when Lincoln was drafting the Emancipation Proclamation.
I recently watched the magnificent Don Cheadle film "Hotel Rwanda" with a group of friends, certified Bush Bashing Democrats all. After it was over, the general murmur in the room was 'why didn't America do something!' to stop the carnage in Rwanda. If Cindy Sheehan were to get her way, and President Bush would be 'impeached and tried for war crimes' over his wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, as she has demanded, the real losers will be the future citizens of Rwanda, and the other places where brutal dictators will have free reign to massacre people in large numbers, knowing that American leaders will pay too high a political price for them to get involved and 'do something.' And I don't think many of those places will be populated by white Europeans.
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
There is no love between Stormfront and Michael Moore. Radicals unite with the common goal of unseating the status quo.
The moment it falls, the two sides will again be cutting at each other's throats.
Wait 15 years. Good article.
" I presume they would favor that the Iraq war end the same way the war in Vietnam ended. I also presume that this means they would not oppose the same fate for the people of Iraq that befell the people of Vietnam and Cambodia after the end of US involvement there, which was one of the more horrible in the sorry annals of twentieth century tyranny"
I think he presumes wrong. I don't think the people holding those signs have any idea what happened when we left Vietnam.
So the Vietnam vets with Cindy's 'show' don't have any idea what happened after we pulled out?
They know.
They just don't care!
The vets do. The average person does not.
Bump.
Stormfornt and Michael Mooore both hate the middle class, middle class values, and all concepts of decency. They're both class warfare freaks -- the only difference is they each think their band of haters should be the ones to rule when they bring down the Bush types.
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
The difference is like Sony and Ford Motors, not Coke and Pepsi.
You're right. The horror that would be Iraq, the death and destruction of war lords fighting decade long civil wars doesn't faze the Cindy types. After all, the Cindy's of the world don't care about anyone but themselves. I can hear Cindy's concern now... "They're all dying now that we've pulled out? Oh, well, how's my hair look?"
Yet he didn't bother to interview anyone at Fort Qualls. It's still all about Sindy.
This should be mandatory reading for every member of the MSM.
" I presume they would favor that the Iraq war end the same way the war in Vietnam ended. I also presume that this means they would not oppose the same fate for the people of Iraq that befell the people of Vietnam and Cambodia after the end of US involvement there, which was one of the more horrible in the sorry annals of twentieth century tyranny"
Wow! Holy Cow! That's quite a question I must admit never occurred to me. Great post. Thanx. This is one reason why Freeperville is my #1 site on the net.
I have no clue what you're talking about.
Naive leftists simply blank out reality, in the present and in the past. They are incapable of learning lessons from history.
The movie "The Killing Fields" focuses on the looming horrors of Pol Pot in Cambodia after the American withdrawal, but neither the movie's director nor the most of the audiences who watched it understood that it was, in fact, the "heroic" reporter who was mainly responsible for the killings. If not for his and his fellow reporters' foolish indulgence in pacifist propaganda, we never would have withdrawn from Southeast Asia and the Communist massacres never would have happened.
Somehow or other, however, all the left "remembers" is that the Vietnamese War and its aftermath--the killing fields, the boat people--were all Nixon's fault.
"They really do believe that only the White Man is fit for freedom."
Not quite, they don't believe anyone is fit for freedom. Not even us.
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