But now it’s time for a change.
Daniel Greenfield: Obama’s Ho Chi Minh Trail, by Daniel
Greenfield, 6/1/16, Politichicks, Sultan Knish
Communist leaders in Vietnam, Obama
criticized the United States for having, “too much money in our politics, and
rising economic inequality, racial bias in our criminal justice system.” He
praised Ho Chi Minh’s evocation of the “American Declaration of Independence”
and claimed that we had “shared ideals” with the murderous Communist dictator.
Shortly after the “evocation” that
Obama praised, his beloved Ho was hard at work purging the opposition,
political and religious. When Obama references these “shared ideals”, does he
perhaps mean Ho’s declaration, “All who do not follow the line laid down by me
will be broken.”
Perhaps he means the euphemistically
named “land reform” which may have killed up to a million people. Like Stalin
and Mao, Ho Chi Minh seized land and executed property owners as “enemies of
the state”. The original plan had been to murder one in a thousand. But the
relatively modest plan for mass murder was swiftly exceeded by the enthusiastic
Communist death squads.
Obama has consistently called for
wealth redistribution. This is what it really looks like. It’s men being hung
from trees or lying in dirt dying of malaria. It’s death squads coming in the
night. It’s a declaration that you are to be executed because you are the wrong
class in a class war. It’s a man condemned to hard labor in a New Economic Zone
and a family starving to death because the regime has commanded that they must
be made an example of to other peasants.
What’s wrong with a little wealth
redistribution anyway?
As Obama said, on his visit to the
brutal Communist dictatorship in Cuba, “So often in the past there’s been a
sharp division between left and right, between capitalist and communist or
socialist… And especially in the Americas, that’s been a big debate, right? Oh,
you know, you’re a capitalist Yankee dog, and oh, you know, you’re some crazy
communist that’s going to take away everybody’s property… you should be
practical and just choose from what works. You don’t have to worry about
whether it neatly fits into socialist theory or capitalist theory — you should
just decide what works.”
Does Vietnam’s Communist
dictatorship work? Obama seems to think that it does, talking up the,
“skyscrapers and high-rises of Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, and new shopping
malls and urban centers. We see it in the satellites Vietnam puts into space”.
What’s a million dead when you’ve got satellites in space? What does it matter
if you don’t have freedom of speech when there are skyscrapers in Ho Chi Minh
City?
Unlike Pol Pot, whose genocidal
crimes leftist activists like Noam Chomsky tried and failed to cover up, the
Communist butchery in Vietnam that took place even long before the Vietnam War
has largely been erased from common history. The victims of Ho Chi Minh and his
successors have become non-persons not just in Vietnam, but in Washington D.C.
Instead Obama associates one of history’s bloodiest Communist butchers with
Thomas Jefferson.
What of the Declaration of
Independence was there in Ho’s concentration camps? The brutal Communist regime
whose ideals Obama praises, sent political dissidents to camps. Are those the
ideals he shares with Uncle Ho?
Obama praises the “Vietnamese
constitution, which states that ‘citizens have the right to freedom of speech
and freedom of the press, and have the right of access to information, the
right to assembly, the right to association, and the right to demonstrate.’
That’s in the Vietnamese constitution.”
The Soviet constitution had the same
empty guarantees. The Nhan Van-Giai Pham intellectuals who were purged can
testify that these words were as meaningless as those of the Vietnamese
Declaration of Independence which Obama had quoted earlier. More relevantly the
fourth article of the Vietnamese Constitution states that the “The Communist Party
of Vietnam… the faithful representative of the interests of the working class,
laborers and the whole nation, acting upon the Marxist-Leninist doctrine and Ho
Chi Minh’s thought, is the leading force of the State and society.” That means
there’s no freedom of speech, press, assembly or anything else except within
the confines of Marxist-Leninist doctrine and Uncle Ho’s cunning distortions
that fooled almost as many American leftists as Uncle Joe’s plans for Eastern
Europe fooled Western European leftists.
Obama equates a Communist
dictatorship to America in an ugly display of moral equivalence. “This is an
issue about all of us, each country, trying to consistently apply these
principles.” Vietnam locked up political bloggers for “abusing their freedom”
just this March. According to Obama, America has “too much money in politics”.
Vietnam doesn’t have that problem. It only has one party. The Communist Party.
Vietnam only has one party because
its Communist leaders banned, purged and criminalized the opposition. But Obama
doesn’t think that Communism is a particularly bad thing.
In his speech, he dismissed the
Vietnam War as being caused by “fears of Communism” that overcame our “shared
ideals”. Why were we afraid of Communism? It might have had to do something
with the mass murder of 94 million people by Communist regimes. It might have a
few things to do with concentration camps, bans of political parties and the
imprisonment and execution of those practicing freedom of speech, assembly and
the press.
Our “fears of Communism” were as
real and valid as our “fears of Nazism”. It is only the fellow travelers of the
left who deny this undeniable fact.
After one bout of mass murder, Ho
Chi Minh dismissed his crimes with the words, “One cannot waken the dead.” Obama
clearly agrees. The dead, American and Vietnamese, must be written off as part
of an unfortunate conflict. We must forget why they died and embrace their
killers.
Obama marked the lives lost on “both
sides” as if the Communist terror squads butchering Vietnamese farmers or
massacring Catholics were somehow morally the equal of American soldiers dying
to stop them. Lives were also lost on both sides when America fought the Nazis.
Reagan was rightly criticized for that sort of moral equivalence when he equated
Nazi soldiers at Bitburg and concentration camp victims. And yet the liberals
who protested that equivalence have nothing but applause when Obama equates
murdered American soldiers and butchered Vietnamese families with their
Communist killers.
When Viet Cong terrorists threw
grenades into markets, are we supposed to mourn the children who were torn
apart by shrapnel and the grenade throwers as morally equivalent? If we equate
“the names of 58,315 Americans who gave their lives in the conflict” with the
evil they were fighting, then we render their sacrifice worthless.
Their deaths become a meaningless
mistake in an unnecessary war caused by our failure to understand our “shared
ideals” with Ho Chi Minh and our irrational fear of Communist concentration
camps.
That is Obama’s real message. We
should have adapted some aspects of Communism and learned from our shared
values. We should have closed our eyes to Ho Chi Minh’s atrocities as a matter
of having to break human eggs to make Socialist omelets while celebrating him
as another Thomas Jefferson.
That is the way the left saw it.
That is still the way it sees it.
Obama’s trip to Vietnam is not a
mere strategic journey, but yet another opportunity for him to remind us that
the left has not repented or recanted of its solidarity and support for
Communist terror whether in Cuba, in Vietnam or anywhere else. It still sees
every Communist dictator as a role model worth emulating and every Communist
mass grave as the price that must be paid for a better world.
Comments
The Cold War was an exercise in misdirected
responsibility. After World War II, the
US believed that its job was to keep the world “safe for democracy”. It was federal overreach.
We did have the USSR and Red China, an active pair of
Communist countries moving into Korea, Hungary, Cuba Vietnam and other
countries, but communist economies were hardly a valid challenge to the
US. In the end, these communist
countries morphed to admit some private companies required to maintain their
communist governments. So much for evil capitalism, more like necessary
capitalism.
Now, most countries are socialist and Marxist and brutal.
Our job in the US is to reverse course to restore our Private Economy and get
government out of the way. This time we
really need to kill socialism dead.
We need to privatize Social Security and end the Federal
Reserve and put voters in control of legislation instead of letting the
corporations and special interests run our country.
If Social Security had been structured to contain private
accounts, we would all have 3 times the cash in these accounts than we have
today. Instead, we have an unsustainable
welfare plan paid for with squandered tax dollars.
Now that we’ve proved that government subsidies sink entire
segments of the economy, we need to remove government subsidies from Education,
Healthcare and all other seized segments and let families take care of their
own.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
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