Posted on 01/06/2018 1:51:21 PM PST by Kaslin
I have some personal knowledge regarding the movie The Post and its subject matter, the Pentagon Papers. At the time the Pentagon Papers began to be published in the summer of 1971, my father was highly placed in the Internal Security Division of the Justice Department and participated in the decision-making process regarding prosecution of the Pentagon Papers cases.
I have a specific recollection around that time of my father at the breakfast table with the family, on several mornings, suddenly breaking out in a cursing rage. I was perplexed by this behavior, but after a while, a pattern emerged. Whenever Dad broke out in one of these rages, he was always holding the morning edition of the Washington Post.
As I came to discuss it with my father in later years, he was angry and upset not because Ellsberg had released embarrassing details about the Nixon administration. The revelations contained in the Pentagon Papers were not an indictment of Nixon. They were an indictment of the one (Kennedy) who started the war and the other (Johnson) who dishonestly dragged us farther into it. No, my father was angry at the narcissistic arrogance of a mid-level bureaucrat (Ellsberg) who arrogated foreign policy decision-making to himself, circumventing the duly elected and appointed representatives of government and doing so in a way that damaged our foreign policy and our national security.
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Our involvement and subsequent loss in Vietnam was the beginning of the end of the Country as we knew it. My brilliant father would always say “You can’t lose a war and hold on to the same form of government.” We lost all respect for ourselves and our government.
Excellent points. Once I heard a few quotes from that air head Streep and the sudden historical comments made by hanks I decided to avoid this movie at all costs. Frankly I applauded what Nixon did to plug the leaks in his White House. Another historical farce of a movie.
That leaves us with a ‘democracy’ which always leads to tyranny or a theocracy (only one of those around). Our Republican form of government of,by,and for the people is under constant assault and IS NOT being taught anywhere in our educational system. With the exception of Hillsdale College.
I would rather spend a few days in a sensory-deprivation unit than see this piece of propaganda called a movie.
No way will I ever see this movie. I strongly recommend “Darkest Hour” instead.
When you mention Spielberg’s name, I get chills. There have been some very disturbing blind items lately hinting about him being involved (let’s face it, if he was involved it was at the top) of the Hollywood Pedo ring.
I don’t have any personal knowledge of this but it makes you wonder and think. http://www.crazydaysandnights.net/2017/11/todays-blind-items-molesters-killed-her.html
Thus I have a hard time taking him at face value any more.
Ellsberg should STILL be in prison along with
whoever he passed that information to.
Again we see traitors treated as heros by the media.
American Thinker can be rather outstanding. I like the overall perspective of this piece and its critical thinking.
You are absolutely right. You can’t keep teaching children what a rotten Country we are then expect them to fight for it when they grow up.
This movie sounds very disappointing. Nixon = Satan, how novel?
.Spielberg’s own demons will likely come erupting through the surface very soon. The chorus is slowly growing..The ever growing and free range of corroborated and fact checked info online is making it less possible for famous criminals to insulate themselves.. Seth McFarlane (who outed Weinstein and Spacey when everyone else was too afraid) alluded to it on both American Dad and Family Guy a few years ago. 90 percent of his flicks, especially the earlier ones, feature kids.
The Progressives are very good at rewriting history. It is why they have taken over the universities, the entertainment industry, and the media.
Orwell said it well in 1984:
“He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.” George Orwell, 1984. George Orwell’s most famous work, Nineteen Eighty-Four, published in 1949, uses themes from life in the Soviet Union and wartime Britain.Jul 7, 2016
Democracy is two foxes and one chicken voting on what to have for lunch.
Who in their right mind would want to see that crap?
She asks McNamara, one of the chief architects of the disastrous management of the war?!
The Dems used Watergate to take down Nixon, whom they had despised since his HUAC days. The aftermath of Watergate killed the GOP in The House and Senate in seventy-four. And when Gerald Ford asked for financial and arms aid to the Vietnamese, Congress said NO. Viet Nam fell, and soon two million people were murdered in Cambodia. Okay, that's a very short summation, but that's essentially what the Dems did.
Newsmax does one of its brief “American Moments” history lessons on Vietnam and summarizes what happened brilliantly - something like: Nixon left South Vietnam in a relatively stable condition with the peace accords in 1973 - then the US Senate, led by Teddy Kennedy, refused to provide the finances for military equipment and supplies Nixon had promised to allow the South Vietnamese to continue to defend themselves - the South Vietnamese armed forces felt themselves abandoned, lost heart and crumbled, and the North quickly overran the South - hundreds of thousands of South Vietnamese who had fought for their freedom and been supporters of the US and the war effort were slaughtered in the subsequent bloodbath - seeing the North communists triumph in Vietnam and knowing the US would never come back to the region to stop them, communists in Cambodia and Laos were encouraged in their own attempts to take over, and two million more people died before both countries fell - pretty much says it all......
1) The Pentagon Papers were completed before Nixon took office.
2) It was Democratic Presidents JFK and LBJ who escalated the war into a major conflict.
3) It was Nixon who ended the war.
WE didn’t lose that war; THE GOVERNMENT and MEDIA LOST IT for us!
I didn’t say whose fault it was, I’m just stating the fact we lost it.
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