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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.
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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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