A Man With a Memory Look at American Foreign Policy

Respectable conservatives are ecstatic.  We've got the Cold War back.

Just like the Communists in the old Cold War, America's terrorist enemies in our new
Cold War are inexcusably evil. And liberals are lining up to apologize for them just like
they did for the Communists.

Just like in the 1950s, the United States is going to take on all the expense and
casualties while Europe sits around and plays hard-to-get.  We will be tearfully grateful
to those Europeans who allow us to defend them and we will be sweet to the Europeans who
bite our hand for feeding them.

All this happened in the 1950s.

I was in Europe in 1959 when President Eisenhower came to Europe.  We were paying for
most of Europe's defense against the Soviet Union back then and most of the troops in
Europe were American troops.  That was what we had signed up for right after World War II
when Europeans were starving in the streets and Germany was under occupation.

By 1949, the Soviet Union had occupied Eastern Europe and only American forces could
protect Western Europe.   But, by 1959, the whole situation had changed.

In 1959, Western Europe had a lot more people than the United States did and we had 

responsibilities around the world.  By 1959, the Western European economy was many times

larger than those in the East.   That was the year Eisenhower came to Europe.

In 1959, Eisenhower declared that nothing was going to change.  In 1959, Eisenhower went
to Europe and guaranteed that the United States would provide the troops forever and the
United States would provide the money forever.     Europe could just sit there and bitch
at us.

Thirty years later, Europe was still sitting there and bitching at us.  It was the United
States that had to force the Soviet Union to take down the Berlin Wall.

Does any of this sound familiar?

Eisenhower was Owned by the Military-Industrial Complex Just Like the Bushes  Are

Everybody quotes President Eisenhower as warning against "the Military-Industrial
Complex" in the United States. 

Eisenhower's reason for going on record with this warning is as old as Shakespeare:

"Methinks he doth protest too much."

When Eisenhower went to Europe in 1959, well over half of the Federal budget went
entirely into military expenditures.   Over half of those billions were devoted to
American forces stationed in Europe and their support back home.

If Eisenhower had demanded that Europe pay for its own defense, it would have ruined the
American military-industrial complex.

So, when Eisenhower told Europe that American blood and treasure would protect them
forever, he also guaranteed the American military-industrial complex enormous power and
money for generations to come.

Eisenhower then went down in history by carefully warning American to "Beware of the
Military Industrial Complex."  This is nice and quotable and American conservatives and
liberals are nice and stupid, so nobody understood that Eisenhower was the best America's
military-industrial complex ever had.

Does any of this sound familiar?

The Treason Factor

Eisenhower was a horrible man.   Party-loyal Republicans are horrible little bastards.  
They have no interest in the American people.  Moderate Republicans 1) want to keep their military-industrial complex happy and, 2)they want to keep liberals happy.  

That is what moderate Republicans called "middle of the road," keeping liberals on the
one hand happy and the generals and big businessmen happy on the other.

But if moderate Republicans were bad, liberals were worse.   Republicans just wanted to
sell out America.  Liberals wanted to destroy us.   They openly hated whites.  They
openly hated America.  

Today, liberals are for "peace," but they are only for "peace" with those who hate
America.   When defending Saddam, every liberal spokesman makes it  look like Saddam is
right on every point and America is evil.  Liberals really love that last part.

During the entire Cold War, liberals insisted they were not actually friendly to the
Communists.  But they always made every argument that any Communist would have made.

Liberals said they were anti-Communist, but they were being Shrewd about it.

See January 26, 2002 - "WHEN DUMMIES TRY TO BE 'SHREWD'."

After decades of this, every Polish hard hat in Chicago could listen to a liberal on
television and he would say, "This guy hates America and loves the Reds."   But
William F. Buckley and every other respectable conservative would insist that his beloved
liberal opponents were wonderful people and great Americans, and mean it.

If liberals could not tell that respectable conservatives really meant that liberals
were loyal Americans, those conservatives would no longer have been "respectable."  To be
respectable, you don't just have to be mindless, you have to be TRULY mindless, SINCERELY
mindless.

Does any of this sound familiar?

So during the Cold Warm, we had a choice between following truly mindless people or
supporting outright traitors.

Does this choice sound familiar?
 

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