it's fun to watch warmongering neocons, zionists and republicans shake and tremble in fear and scream for more war.
On Tuesday, May 31, 2016 at 2:22:59 PM UTC-5, Travis wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > Daniel Greenfield's article: Obama's Ho Chi Minh Trail > <http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/> > > [image: Link to Sultan Knish] <http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/> > ------------------------------ > > Posted: 30 May 2016 07:17 AM PDT > > 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. > > <https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IeRfXyjtn0Q/V0xK2_QkXMI/AAAAAAAAPzU/C7U9taNV4cE2-BJW75uLHNpRiFJljdaTgCLcB/s1600/22-stockdale-homecoming-sd.jpg> > 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.” > > 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. > > 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. > > What’s wrong with a little wealth redistribution anyway? > > 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.” > > 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? > > 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. > > 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? > > 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.” > > 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. > > 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. > > 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. > > 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. > > 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. > > 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. > > 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. > > 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. > > 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. > > 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. > > That is the way the left saw it. That is still the way it sees it. > > 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. 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