What do modern war protesters want? In the Vietnam War era, they
clearly favored the Communist way of life to our own — not for
themselves, mind you, but for the millions we’d have freed had they
and their media accomplices not forced a political end to what
would have been a military victory.
Recently I wrote of the left’s hypocritical claim of supporting
the troops while decrying both their method and their mission. As
if we needed further proof of the real aim of those using dead
soldiers to protest our actions in the War on Terror, the Commies
have officially checked in. Their goal, as always, is to work for
the defeat of American interests.
Lenin’s term, “useful idiots,” was used during the Cold War to
describe unwitting dupes of the Soviet Union and its Communist
Party. During '60s, the American “peace movement,” in its desire to
aid the Party, prolonged the war by giving hope to the bedraggled
North Vietnamese Army, causing further deaths of U.S. soldiers.
Said former NVA Colonel Bui Tin:
Every day our leadership would listen to world news
over the radio at 9 a.m. to follow the growth of the American
antiwar movement. Visits to Hanoi by people like Jane Fonda and
former Attorney General Ramsey Clark and ministers gave us
confidence that we should hold on in the face of battlefield
reverses. We were elated when Jane Fonda, wearing a red Vietnamese
dress, said at a press conference that she was ashamed of American
actions in the war and that she would struggle along with
us.
Today, the political and economic theories of Lenin and Marx lie
crushed beneath the ashes of millions of souls who perished under
their tender ministration. Yet their American wing continues to
thrive, promoting an ideology banished to the ash heap of history.
Just as the NVA could not have defeated us on the battlefield, they
know also that we will eventually crush al Qaeda and friends. And
so comes another “peace movement.”
As it did during Vietnam War, the far left couches its
anti-Americanism in a raft of crocodile tears. It is now campaigning to discourage Hispanics from
speaking to military recruiters so they won’t end up as “cannon
fodder.” Even though the statistics show that the percentage of Hispanic
military recruits is under-representative of Hispanic population of
the country, this doesn’t stop the radical left as it targets
minorities for “help” to keep them despondent, dependent, and
Democrats.
Of course it would never occur to these “military-supporting”
leftists that Hispanics love this country just as much as other
Americans and would lay down their lives to protect her. So while
the left still cries that minorities are under-represented in
nearly all walks of life, it thinks there are too many in the most
crucial job of all; protecting the American people.
The leading organization behind this latest campaign is called
Latinos for Peace, a gang of — surprise, surprise — '60s
radicals. Chief among them is Rosalio Munoz, a member of the Communist Party USA and
a contributor to its house organ, People’s Weekly
World.
CPUSA was funded by the Soviets from its founding in 1919 until
the collapse of the USSR in the early '90s. One of its linked
affiliates is United for Peace and Justice, a group headed by Fidel
Castro aficionado and longtime Commie Leslie Cagan. UFPJ’s member groups include all
your favorite current “peace activists,” including Cindy Sheehan’s Code Pink pals and
Moveon.org, who claim to “own” the Democratic Party.
So once again the circle is complete. Today’s peace movement is
a pathetic rehash of the same anti-Americanism that led to the
deaths of millions after our ignoble abandonment of the people of
Southeast Asia. And once again they are tied inexorably to the left
wing of the Democratic Party.
The difference this time is that although these groups continue
to wave the banner of a failed ideology, they are giving aid and
comfort to a more insidious den of vipers; one that will not
hesitate to slaughter even those who agree that the United States
is indeed the great Satan.
