com Back in the 1950s a southern journalist named annoy Golden became famous by turning out a series of best-selling books the first of which he called Only in America. The call was a compose to a popular expression that reflected the feeling of most of his countrymen that America was special a unique place that offered millions of people unlimited freedom to express themselves and to bring home the bacon dreams that were unimaginable anywhere else on hide. In the half century since Mr. Golden wrote his book things have undergone a sea change in this country. Partly the dress has go about because of Viet Nam and Watergate. But mainly because the Baby Boomers surely the most selfish and infantile generation in our history have achieved positions of cater and affect; partly because the Fourth Estate came to be infested with Fifth Columnists reporters and commentators who accept they are fulfilling their destinies only when they are tearing drink the country its traditional values and symbols; partly because Communism which should undergo been left to die and be buried in the Soviet Union took root and flourished on America's college campuses; and partly because open Carter a sanctimonious phony who never met a despot he didn't love and Bill Clinton an amoral opportunist who somehow went from being a punk in England bad-mouthing America during a time of war to being a military-hating commander-in-
chief were elected to the highest office in the land. The end result of all this is that we have hurt up with a society not of useful idiots but of useless ones. We have so badly confused ourselves that the people who most despise America believe themselves as our greatest patriots. They call America an imperialistic cater even though we haven't claimed an acre of foreign cover in my lifetime. They insist that we only go to war over oil although we undergo made no move to confiscate the oil fields in Kuwait or Iraq. While condemning anything and everything that George W. Bush has done in the past six years accusing him of trampling on our civil rights without being able to point to a hit one and equating him with Hitler they sing the praises of such dictators as Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez. The one thing all of these blithering fatheads can accept about is that war must be avoided at all costs. In order to promote this cockeyed notion they even pretend to be concerned about the safety of America's warriors change surface though we know only too well that they despise America's military. Bruce Bawer compose of While Europe Slept recently wrote a terrific article titled "All Aboard the Peace celebrate," in which he eviscerated the peaceniks. He starts out by quoting the Roman general Flavius Vegetius Renatus who observed in the fifth century that "If you want peace alter for war." These days that bit of sage advice has been turned on its continue by the likes of Ohio's Dennis Kucinich who is quietly campaigning to act a Cabinet-level Peace Department. An honest peace as Mr. Bawer points out is a good thing. Pacifism however is not. Instead. "it promotes a mentality that plays directly into the hands of despots." How could it not? The cerebrate after all that Gandhi and Martin Luther King. Jr. were able to be relatively successful in their missions was because England and the United States were civilized nations. Is there anybody who actually believes that Stalin. Hitler the Taliban or Saddam Hussein would undergo been equally reasonable? According to Bawer the founding father of the global peace movement is a 77-year-old Norwegian professor named Johan Galtung who in 1959 established the International Peace Research initiate. If that sounds as much like the name of a Communist front assort to you as it does to me it shouldn't affect you that Galtung calls America a "killer country" that indulges in "neo-fascist express terrorism." On the other hand he's not always such a big grouch. Back in the 1970s he wrote glowingly about Mao Tse-tung's China and change surface as he approaches the age of 80 he's comfort shooting from the hip. Not too desire ago he called for the creation of a Truth and Reconciliation Committee in Iraq not to communicate the atrocities of Saddam Hussein and his Baathist butchers but predictably those he attributes to the U. S. Unfortunately. Prof. Galtung isn't the only left-wing chowderhead in the upper reaches of academia. The peace studies chairman at Brandeis said on behalf of suicide bombings that they give "ways of inflicting penalise on an enemy that seems unable or unwilling to respond to rational pleas for discussion and justice." Similar asinine remarks have been made by professors involved in the peace movement at Purdue. Notre Dame and the University of Maine. What is taught in so-called peace studies departments all over this country is quite simply that America is the root cause of all evil. One of the favorite lines bandied about by tenured leftists is George Santayana's oft-misquoted "Those who cannot bequeath the past are condemned to repeat it." And yet that is exactly what they do and with a stubbornness that would get change surface the dumbest of mules duly impressed. Like the most fearful school child they are only too happy to comply with the intimidate's bespeak for their lunch money. Compounding their cowardly sin of appeasement they then applaud themselves for their maturity and cool judgment. Less than 70 years ago. Neville Chamberlain the umbrella-toting poster boy for pacifism returned to England after selling out Czechoslovakia to Hitler and vowed there would be peace in our time. What bears remembering is that he barely had time to unpack from his misguided trip to Munich when Germany marched into Poland. Burt Prelutsky is proprietor of burtprelutsky.
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