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The sorry spectacles being staged at our most prestigious universities bespeak the accelerating degeneration of our future cognitive elites. How else do we describe the aggressive ignorance and moral idiocy of protestors who identify with sadistic, savage terrorists, and adopt the rhetoric and tropes of Nazi Germany? Who shamelessly smear Jews––the intended victims of Hamas’ widely publicized and celebrated genocidal aims––the perpetrators of genocide? Who clearly know nothing of the region’s history, or that of Islam’s “settler colonialism” and millennium of imperialist depredations and slaving, or the Koranic foundations of that sanctified aggression?
The letter of these chants and slogans is new, but the spirit goes back to Marx’s debut in history, whence it gradually migrated to Western fellow-travelers and progressives, until emerging during the Sixties to drive the protest movements against the Vietnam War.
There too willful ignorance about the facts of the conflict filled antiwar propaganda––especially the canard that the war was a “civil war” between North Vietnamese “patriots” seeking “national self-determination,” “decolonization,” and “human rights,” just as the American colonies did in the Revolutionary War. Wasn’t Ho Chi Min just another George Washington?
On the other side were the South Vietnamese, the willing collaborators with the “racist” occupiers and oppressors, the capitalist, imperialist Americans propping up the quisling regime in Saigon in order to take control of natural resources like “tin and tungsten,” the talking point provided to Jane Fonda by her handlers when she first became an activist against the war.
And of course, ignored was the reality of the conflict––a proxy war in the U.S.’s efforts to contain Soviet communism’s imperialist ambitions to turn the world into communist satrapies like Eastern Europe. The same callow, mostly affluent youth who demonized America soldiers as the feral attack dogs of the capitalists masters, never mentioned the millions slaughtered, tortured, and enslaved by Soviet and Maoist communist tyrants.
Also then as now, the shock troops of the antiwar movement were college students, some of the most privileged young people not just in America, but the world. Like today, they were cultivated, praised, and sometimes financed by America’s enemies exploiting these “useful idiots” who couldn’t have survived for five minutes living under communist totalitarianism, any more than the pro-Hamas feminists and champions of the LGBTQ alphabet people could survive under illiberal, homophobic, misogynist Islamic sharia law that recognizes only one “human right”––the right to submit to Islam by accepting dhimmitude or converting.
Vietnam created the paradigm of America’s toxic antiwar movements, as we saw after 9/11 with the war to punish the Taliban for sheltering and supporting al Qaeda. Every feature of antiwar protests was trotted out to hinder and smear our attempt to punish the abettors of terrorist murderers of 2996 Americans, cutting short the brief burst of patriotism and resolve that had followed that mass murder.
Just as today, protests were organized in major cities and on university campuses. Most of the protests were the work of International Answer, a coalition of radical leftist groups that supported communist regimes in Cuba and North Korea and, a portent for the future, Hamas. America’s most visible and well-paid “anti-capitalist” radical, MIT professor Noam Chomsky set the tone, announcing a few weeks after the war started that America is the “greatest terrorist state” and was planning a “silent genocide” in Afghanistan by starving the people.
Equally adept as Chomsky and today’s Hamas cheerleaders at specious moral equivalence and projecting the sins of America’s enemies onto the U.S., radical historian Howard Zinn compared the bombing of Afghanistan to the 9/11 attacks, “a crime which cannot be justified.” The Iraq war in 2003, which overlapped with the 2004 presidential primaries, featured equally passionate and morally idiotic protests even before the war began.
In October 2002, hundreds of thousands of demonstrators sprung up across the country. As David Horowitz wrote in Unholy Alliance, “Spokesmen denounced America as a ‘rogue state’ and a ‘terrorist state,’ likened the president to Adolf Hitler, equated the CIA with al Qaeda, described America’s purpose as ‘blood for oil, and called for ‘revolution.’” Such clichéd distortions of history and hard-left propaganda spread to hundreds of “sit-ins,” rallies, protests, and “teach-ins” across the country.
And of course, all were drenched in vicious anti-Americanism, and dull Marxist tropes about “imperialism,” “colonialism,” and the evils of capitalism. Typical was an anthropology professor at Columbia University––yes, the same Columbia currently appeasing antisemitic, badly educated students marching and chanting for Hamas––who hoped for America’s defeat in Iraq, and longed for “a million Mogadishus,” where in 1993 18 American servicemen were killed and their corpses paraded to cheers, just as Hamas did to Israelis on October 7, updating this barbarity with social media videos.
Finally, like previous antiwar protests, many in the Democrat Party support the antiwar movement for electoral political gain. In 2002, the rise of Howard Dean, the governor of Vermont, to a brief front-runner for the Democrat presidential nomination, was fueled in part by his embrace of the antiwar movement. Soon mainstream aspirants Senators John Kerry and John Edwards, who had both voted to authorize the Iraq war, had to ratchet up their criticism of the the war and George Bush. As the Wall Street Journal wrote, “As Mr. Dean climbed in the polls by denouncing the war, he made opposition to it a party litmus test.”
By June 2004, the Dems were “back in Saigon,” reprising many of the self-loathing postures of the antiwar activists. The epitome of this shift to the party’s left was the enthusiastic presence of party bigwigs like Al Gore, Barbara Boxer, Tom Harkin, and Tom Daschle at “documentary” filmmaker Michael Moore’s anti-American libel Fahrenheit 9-11. This celluloid agitprop featured bizarre statements such as calling Saddam Hussein’s Iraqi fascist loyalists the “Minutemen” who “have risen up against the occupation” and “will win.” Moore was rewarded with a box seat next to Jimmy Carter at the Democrat national convention.
And as usual the establishment media eagerly served as the Democrats’ and activists’ press agents. At the beginning of the war, Peter Arnett of CNN acknowledged as much when he told Iraqi television that “our reports of civilian casualties here are going back to the United States. It helps those who oppose the war.”
This survey of postwar antiwar activism puts the current protests against Israel and the Biden regimes’ wobbly support of it, into that clichéd paradigm comprising anti-Americanism, fake history, outright lies, specious Third Worldism, incontinent virtu-signaling, conspicuous preening of class privilege, and utopian expectations about interstate relations and conflicts.
And don’t forget the debased romantic idealization of “rebels” and “revolutionaries,” the feckless admiration for “men of action” whose “passionate intensity” both glorifies and excuses their psychopathic violence. As Rich Lowry said last week about today’s protestors, “Hamas is their equivalent of Che Guevara or the Viet Cong and Israel an expression of Western imperialism that must be opposed at all costs.”
The current demonstrations, encampments, and marches, however, mark a dangerous escalation in our cultural oikophobia and feckless antimilitarism. The enthusiastic endorsement of antisemitism and the Holocaust on the part of our future cognitive elite, and their partnering with adherents of the faith that endorse violence against “infidels” like themselves, is turning oikophobia into a suicide cult.
Coupled with the current administration’s disastrous foreign policy of appeasement, these political and cultural dysfunctions, even as America’s sworn enemy Iran is mere months from possessing nuclear weapons, have moved the doomsday clock to the brink of midnight.
Forget t his Poppycock about the Nuclear Arms Race this and or Bolsheviks/Antifa/BLM/Islamic will do the real with screwing around with the Doomsday Clock
Excerpt from remarks by President George Bush at the Islamic Center in Washington DC on September 17th, 2001:
“The face of terror is not the true faith of Islam. That’s not what Islam is all about. Islam is peace. These terrorists don’t represent peace. They represent evil and war.
When we think of Islam we think of a faith that brings comfort to a billion people around the world. Billions of people find comfort and solace and peace. And that’s made brothers and sisters out of every race — out of every race.”
Gee, George, you could have fooled me.
Imagine if FDR’s rallying cry after Dec 7th, was to praise the Japanese work ethic & honor code.
He’d have been dumped outta his wheelchair & carried off the White House lawn.
George W. Bush refused to press and win the war against depraved psychopathic murderous berserk Islam.
The ongoing current war with Islam must identify the Saudi and Qatari and other “Royal” Families and the lunatic Ayatollahs of Iran..
The Saudi’s are the financiers and propagators of the vile hatred of Jews and non-Muslims found in the Quran and the depraved psychopathology in Sharia Law.
Islam itself is the enemy of America and US citizens as well as Israel and Jews.
America and US citizens and patriotic leaders must recognize Islam as their enemy and act effectively to oppose it, and crush it if necessary.
America and US citizens must defend and protect their society culture laws and Freedom and Liberties.
Islam today is still the scourge on humanity that it has been for 1400 years.
Enough already.
George W. Bush was and is an affable lowbrow dimwit who doesn’t know sh*t about Islam and never will. G W Bush knows as much about Islam as a monkey knows about algebra.
Full disclosure: I left the republican party because of him and his warmongering neocon friends.
And quickly and quietly hustling members of the Bin Laden family out of the country shortly after the 9/11 event? Unforgivable in my book. That suggests to me that him and members of his admin had foreknowledge of what was about to happen and who was responsible.
The neocons needed a war and 9/11 provided them with a fortuitous opportunity to stir up a war fever in America and fatten their bank accounts at the same time from the profits of war.
War has always been and will always be profitable and good for business if you’re in the right business.
LGBTQ is not a monolith. There are plenty of gays and lesbians who don’t want men in women’s sports, women’s locker rooms, or women’s prisons, nor do they want men grabbing the slots set aside for women in government or on corporate boards, nor do they want executed rapist murderers referred to as WOMEN
I had to look up what oikophobia meant.
I’d thought I’d drop by and let you know Trump has lost my vote. He keeps promising a violent revolution after he wins. That’s not normal.
If you’re still dumb enough to listen to the courtier press, who do nothing BUT lie about Trump, then vote for the doddering idiot who’s emboldened every foreign enemy.
The Hitler Youth on our campuses aren’t voting for Trump either.
What worries Sleepy’s handlers is that his is base isn’t “ridin with Biden” unless he betrays Israel completely 100%. (Guess gifting billions to enable Iran & abandoning Afghanistan to the Taliban wasn’t enough.)
you are not looking at reality son- President Trump never spoke of a violent revolution or a revolution other than MAGA.
Trump never had your vote to begin with so why lie about it? People like you are the people who emboldens the left to get even more radical and violent. They know that whatever they do and no matter how far the go, you and your ilk are going to passively take it and do nothing of any real consequence to stop them.
It’s no mystery to me why dems and the far left have nothing but contempt and disrespect for republicans and so-called conservatives.
If they are anti war why don’t they vote for Trump? He’s the one of the few presidents in my lifetime that didn’t go to war.
Hypocrisy or planned?
Who is organizing these protests across the country? This is coordinated! Even the janitors were hijacked at Columbia.
The CCP Cultural Revolution is under way in the USA. Anti-Americans rally behind any flag of convenience to disrupt social order and eradicate norms in order to advance their agenda of evil. This summer will see children pitted against their elders even more than in 2020, to demoralize working Americans and promote a globalist agenda. Civil society must forcefully resist these attacks, and Christian leaders must be vocal in proclaiming that the whole fabric of individual freedom and social civility rests on Mosaic Law and the wisdom of the Western Church.
BROUGHT TO YOU BE A.N.S.W.E.R., The Party for Socialism and Liberation, the Revolutionary Communist Party, TheRedNation.org, and the Mother-of-them-all… The Communist Party USA. Their signs prove it!
Look at The Red Nation who admits to Communist revolution, anti-Capitalism. They started here in Albuquerque with anti-Columbus Day, now national, “LAND BACK” and comparing to Gaza.
ANSWER and The Party for Socialism and Liberation aided in the takeover of the University of NM Student Union, State Police raided the place at 2am to remove them and after serious damage to the building.
When Tomi Lahren came here, the mob got into the SUB and pounded on walls putting holes in it, pulled the fire alarm, pushed cops around, so Lahren was escorted out the backdoor after only twenty minutes due to the mob trying to get in. I was by the kitchen door blocking it if they tried to get the back. We were trapped in there for about an hour, students crying, alarm ringing, I called 911 three times, the State Police finally came from our local State Fair going on at the same time. I filed police reports. A month later, I wanted my reports plus others. THE HEAD OF THE SUB didn’t file one for all the damage to University property, like they didn’t when the ANTIFA-led mob trashed UNM when Milo Yianapolis (sp) came. I talked to the director: “We took care of it internally.” WHY? BECAUSE THEY SIDE WITH THESE MOBS!
I can save you a lot of words. In short, the democrat party is behind it all. To be totally truthful, the nom de guerre “democrat party” is just the veneer the neo-Marxists hide behind to conceal who and what they really are and have always been from the American people.
To be quite blunt about, the neo-Marxists no longer care if the American people know who and what they are and represent and why should they? Most of the MSM, to a greater or lesser extent, are sympathetic to their cause. Some MSM networks (e.g., MSNBC and CNN) openly support Marxist causes without equivocation.
USA should have an agreement with Iran and similar nations to send these nut jobs to their countries so they can experience first hand what the lack of freedoms USA’s Constitution promises so they will learn first hand and the very hard way the ideals of the Founding Fathers has kept strong by patriotic leaders we have elected to represent us and not the ilk that idiots are voting for that are anti USA, antisemitic, anti Israel and think jihad and intifada is the answer – they have opened up the door to hell for their lives and eternal life!!
Reading Triumph Regained about Vietnam War 1965-68 by Mark Moyar, very good btw. So been saying we are rhyming with 1968 Marxists Seminaries protesting Vietnam and today Israel.
Does that book mention the North Vietnamese general who later said in an interview that the riots/protests are what encouraged the ☭ North to hang on?
Another good book: “American Amnesia”.
It points out that we technically won Vietnam. It was lost by Democrats denying aid after Nixon was forced out.
So far, and finished Triumph Regained, the North Vietnamese are doing badly after the Tet offense and US Troop build up through the Johnson administration years. They are in dire position but the next book should pick up why the North didn’t quit.
We have no crime is the law was gang-raped…
???? I’m not that smart or intuitive so please explain. Break it down Barney style for me…!
Haven’t heard where the Combat Vets, American Legion, VFW, et. al. throw down on this insurgent warfare topic.
On target as usual, Bruce. I have seen other pundits try to characterize Vietnam’s protests as somehow different from today’s. You make clear that the same types of students with the same mindsets then are the forbears of the protestors today. I have wondered how millions of people in China are unable to do anything about their totalitarian situation. Now I wonder if a free people can lose their freedoms and not be able to regain them? You don’t know what you have until you lose it. If our young continue to bite the hand that feeds them, will they be the generation that will know want first hand?