No More Left TurnsSo says Keith Thompson in a
long and moving account of his political evolution.
My estrangement hasn't happened overnight. Out of the corner of my eye I watched what was coming for more than three decades, yet refused to truly see. Now it's all too obvious. Leading voices in America's "peace" movement are actually cheering against self-determination for a long-suffering Third World country because they hate George W. Bush more than they love freedom.It's not really all that new though; in the 1960s who was rooting for a totalitarian, evil regime and who was rooting for democracy? Yes, the South Vietnamese government was not perfect. But compared to what came afterwards they were angels. The difference was that we could actually kid ourselves that Ho & his thugs might be better than the US-backed government. With Saddam and the insurgents, there is no kidding oneself.