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tremble in fear and scream for more war.



On Tuesday, May 31, 2016 at 2:22:59 PM UTC-5, Travis wrote:
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> Daniel Greenfield's article: Obama's Ho Chi Minh Trail 
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> Posted: 30 May 2016 07:17 AM PDT
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> On his visit to meet with Communist leaders in Vietnam, Obama criticized 
> the United States for having, “too much money in our politics, and rising 
> economic inequality, racial bias in our criminal justice system.” He 
> praised Ho Chi Minh’s evocation of the “American Declaration of 
> Independence” and claimed that we had “shared ideals” with the murderous 
> Communist dictator.
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> Shortly after the “evocation” that Obama praised, his beloved Ho was hard 
> at work purging the opposition, political and religious. When Obama 
> references these “shared ideals”, does he perhaps mean Ho’s declaration, 
> “All who do not follow the line laid down by me will be broken.”
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> Perhaps he means the euphemistically named “land reform” which may have 
> killed up to a million people. Like Stalin and Mao, Ho Chi Minh seized land 
> and executed property owners as “enemies of the state”. The original plan 
> had been to murder one in a thousand. But the relatively modest plan for 
> mass murder was swiftly exceeded by the enthusiastic Communist death 
> squads. 
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> Obama has consistently called for wealth redistribution. This is what it 
> really looks like. It’s men being hung from trees or lying in dirt dying of 
> malaria. It’s death squads coming in the night. It’s a declaration that you 
> are to be executed because you are the wrong class in a class war. It’s a 
> man condemned to hard labor in a New Economic Zone and a family starving to 
> death because the regime has commanded that they must be made an example of 
> to other peasants. 
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> What’s wrong with a little wealth redistribution anyway?
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> As Obama said, on his visit to the brutal Communist dictatorship in Cuba, 
> “So often in the past there’s been a sharp division between left and right, 
> between capitalist and communist or socialist... And especially in the 
> Americas, that’s been a big debate, right? Oh, you know, you’re a 
> capitalist Yankee dog, and oh, you know, you’re some crazy communist that’s 
> going to take away everybody’s property... you should be practical and just 
> choose from what works. You don’t have to worry about whether it neatly 
> fits into socialist theory or capitalist theory — you should just decide 
> what works.”
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> Does Vietnam’s Communist dictatorship work? Obama seems to think that it 
> does, talking up the, “skyscrapers and high-rises of Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh 
> City, and new shopping malls and urban centers. We see it in the satellites 
> Vietnam puts into space”. What’s a million dead when you’ve got satellites 
> in space? What does it matter if you don’t have freedom of speech when 
> there are skyscrapers in Ho Chi Minh City?
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> Unlike Pol Pot, whose genocidal crimes leftist activists like Noam Chomsky 
> tried and failed to cover up, the Communist butchery in Vietnam that took 
> place even long before the Vietnam War has largely been erased from common 
> history. The victims of Ho Chi Minh and his successors have become 
> non-persons not just in Vietnam, but in Washington D.C. Instead Obama 
> associates one of history’s bloodiest Communist butchers with Thomas 
> Jefferson.
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> What of the Declaration of Independence was there in Ho’s concentration 
> camps? The brutal Communist regime whose ideals Obama praises, sent 
> political dissidents to camps. Are those the ideals he shares with Uncle Ho?
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> Obama praises the “Vietnamese constitution, which states that ‘citizens 
> have the right to freedom of speech and freedom of the press, and have the 
> right of access to information, the right to assembly, the right to 
> association, and the right to demonstrate.’ That’s in the Vietnamese 
> constitution.” 
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> The Soviet constitution had the same empty guarantees. The Nhan Van-Giai 
> Pham intellectuals who were purged can testify that these words were as 
> meaningless as those of the Vietnamese Declaration of Independence which 
> Obama had quoted earlier. More relevantly the fourth article of the 
> Vietnamese Constitution states that the “The Communist Party of Vietnam... 
> the faithful representative of the interests of the working class, laborers 
> and the whole nation, acting upon the Marxist-Leninist doctrine and Ho Chi 
> Minh's thought, is the leading force of the State and society.” That means 
> there’s no freedom of speech, press, assembly or anything else except 
> within the confines of Marxist-Leninist doctrine and Uncle Ho’s cunning 
> distortions that fooled almost as many American leftists as Uncle Joe’s 
> plans for Eastern Europe fooled Western European leftists. 
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> Obama equates a Communist dictatorship to America in an ugly display of 
> moral equivalence. “This is an issue about all of us, each country, trying 
> to consistently apply these principles.” Vietnam locked up political 
> bloggers for “abusing their freedom” just this March. According to Obama, 
> America has “too much money in politics”. Vietnam doesn’t have that 
> problem. It only has one party. The Communist Party.
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> Vietnam only has one party because its Communist leaders banned, purged 
> and criminalized the opposition. But Obama doesn’t think that Communism is 
> a particularly bad thing.
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> In his speech, he dismissed the Vietnam War as being caused by “fears of 
> Communism” that overcame our “shared ideals”. Why were we afraid of 
> Communism? It might have had to do something with the mass murder of 94 
> million people by Communist regimes. It might have a few things to do with 
> concentration camps, bans of political parties and the imprisonment and 
> execution of those practicing freedom of speech, assembly and the press. 
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> Our “fears of Communism” were as real and valid as our “fears of Nazism”. 
> It is only the fellow travelers of the left who deny this undeniable fact.
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> After one bout of mass murder, Ho Chi Minh dismissed his crimes with the 
> words, “One cannot waken the dead.” Obama clearly agrees. The dead, 
> American and Vietnamese, must be written off as part of an unfortunate 
> conflict. We must forget why they died and embrace their killers. 
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> Obama marked the lives lost on “both sides” as if the Communist terror 
> squads butchering Vietnamese farmers or massacring Catholics were somehow 
> morally the equal of American soldiers dying to stop them. Lives were also 
> lost on both sides when America fought the Nazis. Reagan was rightly 
> criticized for that sort of moral equivalence when he equated Nazi soldiers 
> at Bitburg and concentration camp victims. And yet the liberals who 
> protested that equivalence have nothing but applause when Obama equates 
> murdered American soldiers and butchered Vietnamese families with their 
> Communist killers.
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> When Viet Cong terrorists threw grenades into markets, are we supposed to 
> mourn the children who were torn apart by shrapnel and the grenade throwers 
> as morally equivalent? If we equate “the names of 58,315 Americans who gave 
> their lives in the conflict” with the evil they were fighting, then we 
> render their sacrifice worthless. 
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> Their deaths become a meaningless mistake in an unnecessary war caused by 
> our failure to understand our “shared ideals” with Ho Chi Minh and our 
> irrational fear of Communist concentration camps. 
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> That is Obama’s real message. We should have adapted some aspects of 
> Communism and learned from our shared values. We should have closed our 
> eyes to Ho Chi Minh’s atrocities as a matter of having to break human eggs 
> to make Socialist omelets while celebrating him as another Thomas Jefferson.
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> That is the way the left saw it. That is still the way it sees it. 
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> Obama’s trip to Vietnam is not a mere strategic journey, but yet another 
> opportunity for him to remind us that the left has not repented or recanted 
> of its solidarity and support for Communist terror whether in Cuba, in 
> Vietnam or anywhere else. It still sees every Communist dictator as a role 
> model worth emulating and every Communist mass grave as the price that must 
> be paid for a better world.
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