Mervyn Lobo mervynalobo at yahoo.ca
Sat Jul 11 19:15:27 PDT 2009
I do not know what the fuss is about.
Bob McNamara described himself as a war criminal.
Here is the link:
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Fog_of_War
I sure am glad he was in charge of the Bay of Pigs invasion.
I am sure El Supreme Commandante is glad too.
If we live long enough, we will get to hear George Bush (43) uttering
similar words.
Mario observes:
Those who have a contempt for freedom and democracy and consistently support
and show sympathy for some of the worst totalitarian tyrants in the world, it
may not be possible to grasp what the fuss is about.
The fuss started with the death of Bob McNamara, which led to a furious
revisionist assault on his memory by the remnants of the old anti-war left with
hopes of condemning his legacy even his very soul. Ironically, the character
assassins are those who have shown no compunction in condemning millions of
innocent civilians to rot under brutal totalitarian regimes.
McNamara was simply one high level official while his political leaders and
legislators were making the decisions on prosecuting wars. There are some
contemporaries who agree with him and others who don't.
The real fuss is about the 3 million innocent Vietnamese and Cambodians who
were brutally massacred after the American Democrats forced a withdrawal from
Vietnam and the confrontation with the spread of communism in S.E. Asia that
their own party's Presidents had initiated and engaged in, just when the
Vietcong were on their knees by the admission of their own commanding general.
If not for the anti-war wing who forced the politically motivated withdrawal,
Vietnam and Cambodia could have been thriving free-market democracies today in
the mold of S. Korea and Taiwan, instead of struggling socialist backwaters.
In addition, because Democrat John F. Kennedy failed to prosecute the Bay of
Pigs military action against Fidel Castro as planned, millions of Cubans have
been condemned to struggle under yet another failed and brutal socialist regime
where political dissenters are routinely repressed, hounded, jailed or
mercilessly executed.