Think again:
In brief, regarding the terror-sponsoring totalitarian regime on our doorstep that pulled off the biggest and most brazen armed burglary of U.S. property in history, who tortured and murdered Americans both at home and in North Viet-Nam, whose senior military officials were indicted by U.S. courts for the gratuitous murder of U.S. citizens, who managed the deepest and most damaging penetration of the U.S. Defense Dept in recent history, who steals and traffics in U.S. military secrets, who came closest to nuking us, who facilitates the entry of hundreds of criminals, spies and potential terrorists onto our soil—regarding this place most Americans (thanks largely to the mainstream media) qualify as “low-information” voters.V
“Wait a minute?!” Some readers say. “What was that last point again? The one about facilitating the entry of potential terrorists onto our soil?”
Thanks for the cue, amigos. Thought you’d never ask. Now here’s a recent story in the Washington Post (no less!)
“Over the past two months, travel agents in Kabul have been surprised by Afghans showing up at their offices with Cuban visas, which are suspected of having been issued in Iran or acquired on the black market.
Other agents in Kabul also report a spike in interest in Cuba, and U.N. officials in the northern Afghan city of Kunduz say they recently encountered a family with Cuban visas. Havana has been a way station in the past for South Asians hoping to transit to Central America and from there to the United States.
Ten or 15 people have come just since January asking for tickets for Cuba,” Sayeedi said. “And they are not staying there. The only option is to move forward, probably on to Mexico and then America or Canada.”
Iran is collaborating with Venezuela and Cuba to exploit the seams in the Canadian immigration system,” documents Canada’s Center for a Secure and Free Society. “From 2009 to 2011, Latin America was the largest prior embarkation region for improperly documented Iranians migrating to Canada. Venezuelan authorities provided at least 173 passports, visas and other documentation to Islamist extremists seeking to slip unnoticed into North America.”
Nowadays “Venezuelan authorities,” actually means authorities from Venezuela’s colonial overlords: some of the 50,000 KGB-trained Cubans who essentially run Venezuela’s military, police and foreign policy sectors. This item has been thoroughly documented in the bombshell “Panama Papers” and was recently disseminated in a crackerjack investigative report by Capitol Hill Cubans: “as recently confirmed in the Panama Paperleaks, Venezuela's passport and national ID systems are completely controlled by Cuba's regime.”This is what you get when you are ruled over by someone who absorbed liberation theology and America-hatred for twenty years in the pews of Jeremiah Wright's Trinity Church, someone mentored in his youth by Frank Marshall Davis.
And the chances that someone equipped - morally and intellectually - to begin reversing his damage next year are pretty much nil.
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Where have you gone, Joe McCarthio? The deranged drunk you were ultimately revealed to be? So, we got good popes and bad popes, too, I know. Are you certain that those legal claims of the US property owners have been closed? Not even a commie US President can have these revoked, can they? And the US deserved resistance in Viet Nam. We just didn't know what we were getting ourselves into. They fought to preserve their land from invasion and, by golly, they won. I'd expect no less from us if our land were invaded.
ReplyDeleteWhoa. Just whoa. "The United States deserved resistance in Viet Nam?" You are coming very, very close to endorsing Marxism-Leninism and expressing hatred for the Constitutional / Judeo-Christian underpinnings of what America was about. Here's your chance to clarify what you mean and dispel any misunderstanding if that is not where you are coming from.
ReplyDeleteThe more I think about how sick your comment is, the more I want to vomit.
ReplyDeleteOh, they were just supposed to take it, right? They fought back and took everything we threw at them. Wouldn't you do the same? If this makes you puke, you're sick.
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ReplyDeleteMany vets will tell you they admired the tenacity of Ho and the Cong. We killed 882,000, which included 655,000 adult males. How Judeo-Christian was that?
ReplyDeleteMan, I spose you really would have puked to hear Ike tell the nation we were pulling out of Korea. No hippie freakos to blame for that one, Sir Armchair.
ReplyDeleteIt was probably Judeo but not Christian and many Christian denominations here stateside ultimately recognized that.
ReplyDeleteRe: Ike and Korea: and now we're looking at an EMP threat from the nation we failed to defeat.
ReplyDeleteTenacity is one thing, Marxism-Leninism is quite another. What you're expressing here seems to indicate that you don't think there's anything special about freedom, about Western values, about basic human rights or about the world's decent nations feeling that someone has their back. That North Vietnam and South Vietnam - and, by inference, the United States which was backing it - were just opponents in some kind of lethal game, neither one better than the other.
ReplyDeleteWell, hey, you get it. Marxism-Leninism has been dying its own death economically for over a century. The idea of specialness does not enter my thinking. I love my country and its freedoms, but am not that excited about sending my progeny over to some foreign soil to fight and die for their freedom. That is theirs to die for. I also do not trust those within out country who hawk war. And I have been proven correct in my misgivings.
ReplyDeleteIt is special when the special avoid war at almost all costs and I can quote all presidents who served or witnessed war in support of my position. I've quoted Lincoln, Grant, Wilson, Roosevelt, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson and, lately Jefferson and now Truman in this vein. You are a hawk. Guess that makes me a dove, that's all. We were both boy scouts. I even observed military indoc first-hand. Talk about being corralled!
"I would rather have peace in the world than be President." Harry S Truman
Here's another Kennedy quote for good measure:
ReplyDelete"For in the development of this organization rests the only true alternative to war--and war appeals no longer as a rational alternative. Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes. It can no longer concern the great powers alone. For a nuclear disaster, spread by wind and water and fear, could well engulf the great and the small, the rich and the poor, the committed and the uncommitted alike. Mankind must put an end to war--or war will put an end to mankind." Address Before the General Assembly of the United Nations
President John F. Kennedy
New York City
September 25, 1961
No, you're trying to skirt what you are on record as saying. You say the US "deserved resistance in Viet Nam." Your attempts to avoid the most obvious interpretation of this - that you see the spread of Marxist-Leninist totalitarianism as a good thing - are so far pretty inadequate.
ReplyDeleteNo I'm not, so the US deserved the Cong to not put up a fight? No you are so wrong. That's what Joe McCarthy did, try to put words in peoples mouths. Why would I say that the spread of Marxist-Leninist totalitarianism is a good thing. Anybody who knows me knows that is not at all true. False!
ReplyDeleteThe US tried to bomb the Cong back to the stone age, when they were closer to it than the US and the US could not handle the fight they put up in their own country. The French could not handle them either before us.
ReplyDeleteThe Viet Cong was not supposed to exist per the 1954 Geneva agreement.
ReplyDeleteAhh, but you are known by the company you keep, and you hung with the prosecutorial Ted Cruz and admire the inquisitorial Trey Gowdy, Trump's choice for the AG gig.
ReplyDeleteWe do not need a repeat of the Viet Nam experience and all future wars should at least be viewed that prism, both for hawks and for doves. I am sure there are all sorts of military engagements a hawk could have us in but wait and see the reaction. Your cattle will all grow cow cajones aka bull balls. I am quite all right with the Constitution and our life here in your alleged post-America. So where's the next commie hotspot and even the rest of Central and South America are shunning it as no model for them. How many killed over what might evolve as a more capitalistic realm. Certainly not 800,000 plus as in 'Nam. The age of the regional nationalistic conflicts is over.
ReplyDeleteI said, the Viet Cong was not supposed to exist per the 1954 agreement. Would you care to stay on topic.?
ReplyDeleteMission Impossible
ReplyDeleteThe American war of aggression in Vietnam was a doomed modern military invasion against a popular, rural-based insurgency for independence. In his memoirs, President Eisenhower acknowledged that 80 percent of the Vietnamese might have voted for North Vietnam's Ho Chi Minh, if the general countrywide election called for by the 1954 Geneva Conference had been held. 6 But elections were stymied by the United States, which backed the corrupt South Vietnamese dictator Ngo Dinh Diem.
more at http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/13944-vietnam-resistance-regret-and-redemption
The topic degenerated into you alleging I was a commie or at best a commie sympathizer.
ReplyDeleteQuoting Truth Out doesn't do much to substantiate any other conclusion
ReplyDeleteWhat we need is to jettison all crazed hawks from power everywhere. It's good to have their voice, but when we listen to it, disaster soon follows.
ReplyDeleteJames Duffy, a helicopter machine gunner, described helicopters swooping in near Vietnamese and dropping their rotor wash on Vietnamese defecating in fields, "blowing them over through the sand and their defecation." Using Vietnamese skulls as lanterns, and giving hungry kids C-ration crackers laced with a trioxylene heat tab that would burn the membrane out of their throat, were jokes to soldiers like him, admitted Duffy. "They brainwash you. Then, they take all the humanness out of you and you develop this crust which enables you to survive in Vietnam." The most gruesome witness of atrocity, given by Marine Sgt. Joe Bangert, described a soldier quartering, eviscerating and skinning a dead Vietnamese woman; and the crucifixion of dead Vietnamese stripped and hung on barbed wire fences by other soldiers.
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/13944-vietnam-resistance-regret-and-redemption
So why don't you kill me. I have stated many times that I do not prescribe to any Index Liborum Prohibitorum. The truth is the truth, whether it's in Truth Out or NR.
ReplyDeleteWow. Doubling down on quotes from one of the vilest America-hating sources one could cite. There really is no other conclusion to draw but that you adhere to a hard-left worldview. By the way, be sure to read the Salute! supplement in tomorrow's Republic. I have two profiles of Vietnam vets in it. And one more on the front page of the paper itself. It was a pleasure to interview these great Americans
ReplyDeleteNo shame in being a Progressive American, or even a Democrat, despite claims here that we are commies and jack boots. Truthout's Board of Directors includes McMaster University Professor and educational theorist Henry A. Giroux. Truthout's Board of Advisors has included Dean Baker, Robert Reich and the late Howard Zinn.
ReplyDeleteTruthout has featured content from writers Paul Krugman, Dahr Jamail, Henry Giroux, Jason Leopold, Bill Moyers, Andy Worthington, Kathy Kelly, Norman Solomon, William Rivers Pitt, Kelpie Wilson, Ken Morris, Dean Baker, Richard D. Wolff and Noam Chomsky. The organization has reported extensively on the torture policies of the Bush administration, the health care debate, veterans' issues, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the labor movement, prison reform and election politics.
Of course I'll read your profiles of Viet Nam vets, not because it's all about you though. My classmates were amongst them and I honor them this Memorial Day, the dead ones from Agent Orange. And stop calling me a commie, you crypto-Nazi or I'll sock you in the goddam face and you will stay plastered.
ReplyDeleteEvery one of the people you list hates basic human freedom and thinks Western civilization has been a blight on human advancement.
ReplyDeleteThat is a gross exaggeration and not true either. You can't be pure (lol) without the impure. If they don't support your ravenous Israeli types like Nettie they hate Western civilization. That's all it takes. There is considerable evidence that Nettie is increasingly being viewed as a nut job in his own country when it comes to war and peace. Western civilization is morphing into a part of World Civilization and there are not going to be any world wars in its defense, not if you are hanging your hat on Israel like it's one of your own, because we all share and love Israel.
ReplyDeleteTo the extent that the West is morphing into a "world civilization," it izplains why dignity, decency, freedom and safety are disappearing from our society
ReplyDeleteIt's been said that you can pretty well size up a person's overall worldview by where they stand on two issues: Israel and abortion
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