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We are now watching a third repeat of the policy that got us into the hopeless bloodbath of Korea.

We are now watching a repeat of the policy that got us into the hopeless bloodbath of Vietnam.

We are now watching why the combination of liberals in command and a group of spineless, mindless respectable conservatives on the other side is going to lead us into one hopeless bloodbath after another.

The formula is simple:

1) a liberal president sends in troops.

2) Respectable conservatives say, "This may not make any sense, but they've got our troops in there, so we've got to back our soldiers."

3) Naturally, some troops get killed.

4) Respectable conservatives now declare that anything the liberal president does from this point on is a matter of principle, since American men have died for whatever it is the president has decided he is doing.

At the time I am writing this, we have reached step 2) in the Kosovo business.

Our leading respectable conservatives have declared that this policy doesn't make any sense, but now that we're in there, we've got to stay the course and escalate the fighting.

In other words, what they are both demanding is step 3) above. They want more troops in there, and that means some of them will get killed.

Then it will become a matter of National Principle.

That happened in Korea. In Korea, General MacArthur was astonished at the first instance of this liberal Democratic phenomenon -- using American troops as hostages. He had assumed that, when Truman sent troops to Korea under his command, they had the full support of their country for the purpose of fighting and winning a war. But then Truman told him that the troops were there to die, not to fight.

Truman told MacArthur that Communist supplies with which to kill Americans were to be permitted to pour into Korea through Manchuria. There was to be no American bombing north of the Yalu River, the border of Manchuria.

Remember, in 1950 this business of killing off a few thousand American troops so the Administration doesn't have to make any hard decisions was brand new idea. MacArthur was an old-fashioned man.

MacArthur went ballistic and denounced Truman. Truman fired MacArthur, which he had every right to do.

But the fact that Truman had the RIGHT to fire MacArthur has obscured what the original dispute was all about.

The dispute was about the fact that a general was protesting the misuse of his men's lives. It is interesting that the same liberals who made fun of Nazi commanders who said they were "just following orders" under Hitler universally denounced MacArthur for DARING TO QUESTION ORDERS he considered to be evil.

By the time of Vietnam, there was no MacArthur. All the generals "just followed orders" without raising any questions about them.

Certainly respectable conservatives did not bring up any embarrassing questions.

At first, Reagan said we should either fight or get out. But once Kennedy and Johnson dipped the flag in blood and then ran it up the pole, all the conservatives saluted and backed the war.

That is happening now, again.

Respectable conservatives have exactly the same contempt for the Constitution that liberals do. Under the Constitution of the United States, there is no way TENS OF THOUSANDS of Americans could be slaughtered without a DECLARATION OF WAR.

Only in Korea and Vietnam -- after the takeover by liberals and respectable conservatives -- have we had tens of thousands of our soldiers killed without putting the REST OF AMERICA, not just the people in uniform, on a WAR FOOTING.

Today, if you want to look tough, you send hundreds of thousands of soldiers abroad, you get them killed, you get them maimed, but you don't inconvenience anybody else. Americans were dying by the thousands in Vietnam, but that didn't mean the country was committed to anything.

Putting hundreds of thousands of Americans on a foreign battlefield without making a decision to make war is the respectable conservative's idea of "supporting the troops." It is also his idea of constitutional government.

The soldiers who were dumped in Korea and Vietnam were the liberals' HOSTAGES. If conservatives objected, the liberals would say they were not "backing the troops."

This is the key to the whole mentality of respectable conservatism. The one thing that respectable conservative fear above all else is that they might be called NAMES.

Respectable conservatives have one, and only one, real concern in life. That is their respectability. You can kill Americans, you
can bus children, you can do anything you want to do to anybody, if only you will not give respectable conservatives labels that will make them unrespectable.

They don't mind men dying. They don't mind children being bused.

They DO mind being called "racists." They DO mind being called "isolationists."

Kill American troops all you want to, but don't accuse conservatives of "refusing to support the troops." The troops are just hostages. They are hostages to conservative respectability.

 

 


Lake High had an interesting front-page article in the Edgefield Journal this time. It turns out that my old friend Paul Weyrich, along with others, is beginning to think our way. They are saying that we need to stop trying to take over the present political setup and concentrate on building sovereign communities of our own.

We have to have territory of our own. Lake gives other examples of people coming to this conclusion, including a conservative Jewish commentator, Dr. Laura Schlessinger, and the black conservative theorist, Walter Williams.

But respectable conservatives keep doing their job for the Union and the ruling establishment.

National Review recently had a cover article entitled, "The Emerging Republican Minority." It explained that, due to falling white birthrates in the United States and massive nonwhite immigration from abroad, conservatism in America is doomed.

So what do these brave champions of conservatism plan to do about it?

According to the article, they propose to cry and whine a lot.

Oh, and there is one other thing respectable conservatives are going to do:

We all see this train coming to destroy us. If any of us try get off the rails, respectable conservatives will do ANYTHING to keep us tied to the tracks.

George Will recently did a column about how the League of the South was leading America toward a situation like that in Yugoslavia. And you know what respectable conservatives want to do about bad guys like us in Yugoslavia!

That was Andrew Johnson's attitude in 1860. When Lincoln was elected, and it was clear that all Southern influence in America was to be destroyed, he whined as loudly as anybody. But when push came to shove, he helped kill any Southerners who tried to escape the onrushing train.

In 1864, to keep the war against his fellow Southerners going, the Republicans who wanted to keep killing Southerners needed the support of traitors like Johnson, so they nominated him for vice president. But in 1865, they won the war, and they wanted to get rid of him.

As the Radical Republican congress turned against this fanatical Unionist after the Civil War, one of the common Radical charges against him was that he was a FOREIGNER, a citizen of the ALIEN state of Tennessee! This is the phenomenon I wrote about in my December 12 Whitaker OnLine article "The History Channel Presents Approved Fiction".  My point was that the left always finds patsies like Johnson to use for its purposes. Turncoat patsies like Johnson repeat the Yankee and leftist promises that they only want to be reasonable.

And, as with Johnson then and National Review today, the minute these chumps give the victory to the Radicals, the Radicals dump them like the garbage they are, and laugh at them to boot.

The price of trying to be respectable to the left is humiliation and worse. The left flatters its rightist pawns and honors them and praises them - until the moment it no longer needs them. Then, like Andrew Johnson, you find yourself classed with the other rightists you helped to criminalize.

The second it can safely do so, the left chews these rightist turncoats up and spits them out.

So respectable conservatives are beloved of the ruling establishment -- for the time being.

In the 1830s, many Southerners refused to face facts, and compromised with the growing power of the North. In the 1830s, when the North made colonies of us with The Tariff of Abominations, we could have seceded successfully.

Like their predecessors, respectable conservatives today fight to keep us in the system until things are hopeless.

The strain is showing. During the debate over impeachment, House Minority Leader Gephardt pointed out that "Politics is a substitute for violence," but, he pointed out, the violence on both sides was beginning to show as the impeachment situation got nastier. The partisan split is getting wider and wider.

This widening of the partisan political split in this country is discussed all the time, but nobody wants to face the reason for it. That reason is simple. Once again America is being split over matters that are basic and irreconcilable. The revolution National Review pointed to is under way, and it will lead to a total transformation of America. When the stakes are total, partisanship becomes total as well.

To the vanishingly few of us who remember American history, the present situation is pure déjà vu. The same thing happened before the Civil War, as more and congressmen went to the capitol armed.    And the basic situation is exactly the same. On the one side are those who march behind the banner of Five Words and Emma Lazarus (Whitaker OnLine Archives, article for October 31). They see America as the property of All Mankind. They fully intend to take America from its older population and turn it over to All Mankind. This is the same outlook the fanatical Abolitionists had.

Whenever anyone ignored the Constitution and substitutes "all men are created equal" for it, the country is in deep trouble. Both liberals and respectable conservatives today treat "All men are created equal" as a complete substitute for our Constitution.

In its special 1976 bicentennial edition, National Review announced that "All men are created equal" was the basis on which America was built! It has maintained that position ever since. This should cure anyone who thinks respectable conservatism will do us any good at this late date.

As National Review has pointed out, our national problems will only be resolved when enough minority voters have been bred and brought in to overwhelm all opposition.     The populations of America, both the whites and the anti-whites, are becoming more and more aware of the titanic climax that is looming. As in the 1850s, the battle is becoming more physical, as Gephardt remarked.

Everyone who is familiar with history knows that, if the South had united behind South Carolina's lead in 1830, when there was still time, the old order and peace might have been saved. But Andrew Jackson, Henry Clay, and other "respectable" Southerners, like National Review today, viewed anybody who wanted off the train tracks as the absolute enemy. So they got to be National Leaders. And, because of their efforts, the South became an outright colony of New England in 1865.

No one is more fanatical about keeping us tied down on the tracks than respectable conservatives. In the present crisis, they are the real enemy, for they are in OUR camp and working for the enemy.

 

 

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