SCN: Re: Lesson for anti-war

[emailer1]

Whew!  What distorted thinking.
"The
> blood of hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese, and tens of thousands of
> Americans, is on the hands of the anti-war activists who prolonged the
> struggle and gave victory to the Communists.

It's logic like this that blames the rape victim for being raped.

Tuan, rule number one in first grade logic is:  "Don't blame those against
killing when others kill."

----- Original Message -----
From: TuanMD <tuanmd at scn.org>
To: <scn at scn.org>
Sent: Friday, October 05, 2001 1:48 PM
Subject: SCN: Lesson for anti-war


> Anti-War Demonstrators Should Think Twice
>                                   Wednesday, October 03, 2001
> By David Horowitz from FOX News
>
>                            I am a former anti-war activist who helped
> to organize the first campus demonstration against the war in Vietnam
> at the University of California, Berkeley in 1962. I appeal to all
> those young people who participated in "anti-war" demonstrations on
> 150 college campuses this week, to think again and not to join an
> "anti-war" effort against America's coming battle with international
> terrorism.
>
>                            The hindsight of history has shown that our
> efforts in the 1960s to end the war in Vietnam had two practical
> effects. The first was to prolong the war itself. Every testimony by
> North Vietnamese generals in the postwar years has affirmed that they
> knew they could not defeat the United States on the battlefield, and
> that they counted on the division of our people at home to win the war
> for them. The Vietcong forces we were fighting in South Vietnam were
> destroyed in 1968. In other words, most of the war and most of the
> casualties in the war occurred because the dictatorship of North
> Vietnam counted on the fact Americans would give up the battle rather
> than pay the price necessary to win it. This is what happened. The
> blood of hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese, and tens of thousands of
> Americans, is on the hands of the anti-war activists who prolonged the
> struggle and gave victory to the Communists.
>
>                            The second effect of the war was to
> surrender South Vietnam to the forces of Communism. This resulted in
> the imposition of a monstrous police state, the murder of hundreds of
> thousands of innocent South Vietnamese, the incarceration in
> "re-education camps" of hundreds of thousands more, and a quarter of a
> century of abject poverty imposed by crackpot Marxist economic plans,
> which continue to this day. This, too, is the responsibility of the
> so-called anti-war movement of the 1960s.
>
>                            I say "so-called anti-war movement,"
> because while many Americans were sincerely troubled by America's war
> effort, the organizers of this movement were Marxists and radicals who
> supported a Communist victory and an American defeat. Today the same
> people and their youthful followers are organizing the campus
> demonstrations against America's effort to defend its citizens against
> the forces of international terrorism and anti-American hatred,
> responsible for the September attacks.
>
>                            I know, better than most, the importance of
> protecting freedom of speech and the right of citizens to dissent. But
> I also know better than most, that there is a difference between
> honest dissent and malevolent hate, between criticism of national
> policy, and sabotage of the nation's defenses. In the 1960s and 1970s,
> the tolerance of anti-American hatreds was so high, that the line
> between dissent and treason was eventually erased. Along with
> thousands of other New Leftists, I was one who crossed the line
> between dissent and actual treason. (I have written an account of
> these matters in my autobiography, Radical Son). I did so for what I
> thought were the noblest of reasons: to advance the cause of "social
> justice" and "peace." I have lived to see how wrong I was and how much
> damage we did - especially to those whose cause we claimed to embrace,
> the peasants of Indo-China who suffered grievously from our support
> for the Communist enemy. I came to see how precious are the freedoms
> and opportunities afforded by America to the poorest and most humble
> of its citizens, and how rare its virtues are in the world at large.
>
>                            If I have one regret from my radical years,
> it is that this country was too tolerant towards the treason of its
> enemies within. If patriotic Americans had been more vigilant in the
> defense of their country, if they had called things by their right
> names, if they had confronted us with the seriousness of our attacks,
> they might have caught the attention of those of us who were
> well-meaning but utterly misguided.  And they might have stopped us in
> our tracks.
>                            This appeal is for those of you who are out
> there today attacking your country, full of your own
> self-righteousness, but who one day might also live to regret what you
> have done.
>                            David Horowitz is editor-in-chief of
> FrontPageMagazine.com and president of the Center for the Study of
> Popular Culture. He also appears frequently on the Fox News Channel.
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