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July 24, 2007
“It’s Cloud’s Illusions”
by Tina Grazier
The Woodstock crowd is pushing once again to break the will of the American people and crush the war effort. They are quintessential deniers…we endeavor to crush their anti-war delusion.
These folks suffer several aspects of war delusion, one being that the enemy doesn’t exist, and another, that our enemy is the victim! But the one that will keep any sane person up all night is that if we leave Iraq, no one there will be harmed. The people will not be killed, tortured, imprisoned or oppressed in any way. From my point of view this is an incredibly inconsistent position for a group that has always worn the compassion badge and waved the “we’re for the little guy" flag. But, I must remind myself, these are reinvented “progressives,” a mix of old hippies and young hippie knee sitters. Les enfants dream of their very own Woodstock, the elders are still dream of a peace legacy...all operate in little segments of "me". This reality is hip, mind you, and other-worldly…no box to think out of…just “be,” and then…move on.
One of the best examples of this hippie progressive delusion comes from, and you’re gonna love this, our favorite Viet Nam vet, the amazing and pompous, Senator John F. Kerry! Check out this suweeet reminder “It Didn’t Happen” from James Toranto’s “Opinion Journal” in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal online:
After returning from a tour of duty that lasted an astonishing four months, ...
Kerry also became an antiwar activist. In 1971 Kerry testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that the Vietnamese were a simple people, too simple to care about freedom or oppression: We found most people didn't even know the difference between communism and democracy. They only wanted to work in rice paddies without helicopters strafing them and bombs with napalm burning their villages and tearing their country apart.
But the “clouds illusion” delusion of Kerry fame shows that he, and others like him, “really don’t know clouds….a-at all.” Here's more from the Toranto piece:
In 2001, California's Orange County Register published an investigation of communist re-education camps in postwar Vietnam: To corroborate the experiences of refugees now living in Orange County, the Register interviewed dozens of former inmates and their families, both in the United States and Vietnam; analyzed hundreds of pages of documents, including testimony from more than 800 individuals sent to jail; and interviewed Southeast Asian scholars. The review found:
An estimated 1 million people were imprisoned without formal charges or trials. ** 165,000 people died in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam's re-education camps, according to published academic studies in the United States and Europe. ** Thousands were abused or tortured: their hands and legs shackled in painful positions for months, their skin slashed by bamboo canes studded with thorns, their veins injected with poisonous chemicals, their spirits broken with stories about relatives being killed. ** Prisoners were incarcerated for as long as 17 years, according to the U.S. Department of State, with most terms ranging from three to 10 years. ** At least 150 re-education prisons were built after Saigon fell 26 years ago. ** One in three South Vietnamese families had a relative in a re-education camp.
(Keep in mind, this report does not include the terrible slaughter and oppression of neighboring Cambodia)
War is a terrible thing but purposely losing a war is unforgivable. Are we ready, America, for a repeat of the horror we left behind in Viet Nam? If so, be prepared to face up to the carnage this time, it will be reported. And for those stuck in the hippie delusion, just be sure to wear some flowers in your hair. I've heard it makes all the difference.
Posted by Post Scripts at July 24, 2007 12:25 AM