| If McCarthy Were Alive Today, He'd Put Most of The Bush
Administration on His List; For being a Red, a Communist of a former one.
Rob Kall OpEdNews.Com
If the man who fed on the red menace fever of the fifties were alive
today, he'd be going after an incredible number of the men who are running
our country and advising President Bush on policy.
From the right and left, the neoconservatives who are in control of the
pentagon and the White House-- who describe themselves as a cabal, and who
have been described as executing a Coup d'etat-- are described as
"Post Marxist Trostkyites." In plain english,
communists. Of course they are also described as rabid war mongers who
want the US to create an empire that secures oil and Israel.
But it's the communist aspect that seems to have gone ignored by all
but a handful of intellectuals. This is not rocket science. The people
George Bush has put into control of the Pentagon, the White House, people
high up in the cabinet and the diplomatic corps are at heart, communists.
I want to know why the rabid right pundits and radio morons aren't
freaking out about commies in high government. If any Democratic president
appointed high officials who were even the slightest bit tainted by the
label of communist, they'd be tarred and feathered, pilloried, and savaged
in all the right wing media-- Fox, CNN, Washington Times, Reuters, Clear
Channel Stations, the tabloid dailies, Limbaugh, Hannity, Beck, Novak....
as well by the Christian far right.
But we have..... silence. Not a word. This is a a nasty secret that
needs to be pried open and let out of the box.
Here's a recent article that spells out where they are.
Pentagon
Office Home to Neo-Con Network by Jim Lobe
Remember, there are conservatives calling these neocons who have taken
over the government, names that sure sound like communist to me. For
example, in this article, On
War #28: The Errors Of The Neo-Cons
By William
S. Lind, of the
Free Congress Foundation says,
"I refuse to call them
"neo-conservatives" for the simple reason that there is
nothing conservative about them; the neo-cons are really post-Marxist
Trotskyites"
One article,
by Canadian Michael Taub, describes right wing "neoconservative
culture critic" David Horowitz as an "ex-Marxist."
Some articles
like this one by Paul Gottfried describe the Neocons as being anti
modern communism "opposing
the Communists for betraying the revolutionary vision."
Gottfried, professor of history at Elizabethtown College, says,
"Today’s "conservatives" shout Trotskyist slogans that
they mistake for patriotism and religion.
IN a talk to an
America's Future Foundation symposium of "mostly young
conservatives" John Zmirak gave atalk, in which he said, "I
would argue that since the end of the Cold War, neocons have accomplished
almost nothing, except to liquidate key conservative principles, and
marginalize valuable conservative thinkers, in return for a crack at
administering Leftist policies a little more efficiently."
Clearly, this is
not a simple case of neocons like Wolfowitz and Perle, Feith and the
others being "pure" "red" "commies."
But that was
certainly also true for all the actors, artists, creatives, and liberals
whose lives were assaulted by the McCarthy hearings. Through the use of
hearsay, gossip, innuendo and worse, McCarthy and his government,
Ashcroft-like thugs tore up people's lives. They used their Communist
witch hunt to attack liberals, to sabotage the left... and it was very
effective.
The goal of this
article isn't too tear up the lives of Wolfowitz, Perle, Feith, etc.....
The goal is to get the US public to develop a healthy sense of outrage for
the kinds of people president bush gets his advice from, his policies
from. The goal is to get the people who still support Bush to see what a
fake he is, that these ivory tower theoreticians have Trotskyite
revolutionary ideas at their core, that their belief in the US as an ever
expanding. militarily globe straddling empire that is constantly at war
died with the cold war.
I think the
families of the GIs stuck for seemingly forever in the quicksand of Iraq
would like to know WHY president Bush sent them there. It wasn't about
democracy. It was about oil and hegemony, and I don't think those families
give a flying duck about hegemony or imperium.
Those GI's
families, like the rest of us in America want and expect the truth from
the president. We need to be able to trust him, especially when he is
taking us to war. The problem is, the truth is a cheap commodity, easily
negotiated, among the neocons. What's good for the Military and the
Government, is good for the masses, who don't know or understand.
So, when you're in
a conversation with a person who supports Bush, talk about those neo-marxist,
Trotskyite advisors of his. Ask him or her if he knew that the US
government is in their hands. Ask him how it make him feel to have voted
in the man who put them in office. Or, better yet, as how he'd feel if a
president appointed communists to run the military and the administration.
Let him assume you're talking about democrats. Then hit him with a jolt of
reality.
A jolt of reality.
That's what this country needs.... to jolt Bush and his neocons right out
of Washington. |
