Are "Peace-nicks" USEFUL IDIOTS?
“A British commentator wandered about London during the anti-war demonstrations there, and pronounced that what she failed to see was more striking than what she did: Nowhere did she find protestors asking that Saddam Hussein disarm and leave power. It was as if it had never occurred to these people that the surest path to peace was for Saddam to hand over all weapons of mass murder and go into exile. The US would be mistaken to believe it can disregard world opinion, but there is too much at stake for this country to cave into illogic, naïveté, leftist-ideology or knee-jerk anti-Americanism, all of which seemed to be at least somewhat in play in the protests in Europe. Thanks partly to the perfidy of Germany and France and the consequent easing of pressure against Saddam, he will likely try to tough it out. And that may make war inevitable, for all the alternatives threaten more loss of life, more horror, more terror, more havoc, more oppression than war could cause."
…..“The facts are that prior inspections and sanctions and threats have failed to deter Saddam in his pursuit of weapons of mass destruction and ambition to run a pan-Arab state in the Middle East. If peace at this moment is bought at the price of allowing him to again slip the noose, he will not suddenly prow pacific and humble. He will become more of a menace, and sooner or later, thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands will pay with their lives. There is a possible way to secure peace without that eventuality. And that is for the whole civilized world to stand up as one and to demand that Iraq disarm and Saddam’s regime be replaced. Sadly, some political leaders see advantages in contrary tactics, and a great many demonstrators just don’t get it.”
ScrippsHoward News Service
And here in the US, many who attended so-called ‘Peace Rallies’ did not even know that they were organized and orchestrated by anti-American communist organizations. The ignorance and empty headedness of some of these people is almost beyond belief.
Unfortunately, as I witness the mindless drivel that pours from some of these so-called ‘pacifists’ my hope for humanity to be able to resolve its problems ‘peacefully’ fades more into cynicism.
See also: Intellectual Lemmings
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See Also: Useful IDIOTS
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"Lenin called them "Useful Idiots," the intellectuals, writers, politicians and socialist activists in the West who, while not Party members, promoted the Bolshevik scheme of world revolution. His successor Stalin continued the use of the phrase and today, even after the total collapse of the communist system (estimated even by left-wing historians to have been responsible for over 100 million deaths over its 70-year genocidal run), the Useful Idiots don't appear to have received the word. They just go right on spouting the party line."
"You know the people I'm talking about. They are for peace and always against war, even after September 11. They think patriotism is racist and abusive. They think people who achieve do so at the expense of others, that European-descended Americans purposefully deny education and income to all others. They fight religion on every front, most notably in the public schools. (Okay to teach Islam, not okay to have Christmas pageants). They think a free-market economy has ruined the environment. They say they adhere to the principles of equality while pushing for special status for certain groups."
"They see Western civilization as racist, chauvinist and homophobic and strive to denigrate the reality of its success at very turn. They have no sense of humor and rarely let facts get in the way of their positions. They never stand and fight, preferring to retreat while labeling their opponents "abusive" for daring to air out the facts of the matter."
"The Useful Idiots earnestly believe that human beings cannot make their own decisions about whether to smoke, wear a seatbelt, or eat the right foods. The people are the masses, you see, and they must be controlled by the all-knowing central government and march to the erratic drills of the advocacy groups that have created a cottage industry in this politically correct era. Today, a new federal state or local law is passed every hour to protect the citizenry from itself. Basically, the Useful Idiots hate America because it is constructed on the principle of individual liberty. The Soviet Union may have failed, they say, but its principles are still valid. The state knows best and the revolution must go on until America itself fulfills the socialist utopia that began with the Bolsheviks."
"In the U.S. and around here, their policies dominate the public dialogue in politics. They even have their own Popular Front radio network (just like South American Marxist guerillas) called NPR that extols the virtues of their initiatives with no objectivity and certainly no criticism. Journalism schools have become anti-American activist cells, sending out brainwashed zealots to fix America, to get us to see the collective truth. Highlights of their successes can be seen in the abandonment of objectivity in news articles, the refusal to allow honest free speech, a persistent anti-Americanism and a general decline in the quality of political debate."