The Warrior Class

Tom Bethell postulates a moral equivalency between China/Taiwan and the United States/Puerto Rico. That is the same error that liberals made during the Cold War. It reveals a complete ignorance about the philosophy, intentions, and history of world communism.

This ignorance did not happen by accident. During the late 1950's, U.S. policy makers decided that nuclear war must be avoided at all costs. If the Soviets would not accept our position, we must accept theirs. But if the American people knew the truth about communism, they would never tolerate that policy. So the decision was made to eliminate all of those inconvenient facts from U.S. textbooks. An entire generation was raised in ignorance. Today one can hardly find that information in the public library. I stumbled across it in an old set of 1953 encyclopedias in the attic of my family home.

~ W. DuPree Moore

Tom Bethell replies:

The late '50s was the time of Strategic Air Command and Curtis LeMay.

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No Government Thoughts

I found Antiwar.com on my daily update for the old Yugoslav news collection. It is interesting to see this side of US no government thoughts... and how you collect news with an idea in mind.

But ...what are the good solutions, and why in hell are ...Americans so afraid to be weighed by a common standard of right and wrong?

I ...learn by listening, reading and studying, as I have done in and with former Yugoslavia since 1976. More than 25 visits (living there more than 2 years), hundred of friends, thousands I know, and [I have] an insight into both the history of the region and the mentality of the people... The west did many foolish things, the advisors were far out, as especially the US's are...

I have spent more than six months [traveling] around in US, on 5 visits, and talked to many different people. It was a study of how they see the world. Too many did not impress me...

The permanent war crime court should have been in place, and have the powers, then I can understand why so many have fears.

~ J. Blaha, Bergen, Norway

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Olympics

Why is there such outrage to having China host the Olympics?

The U.S. government is complaning that politics and corporate greed are weighing in on the decision. Many U.S. companies see China winning the bid to boost their investements in China.

The fact is Athens lost the 1996 games to Atlanta for similar reasons, corporate greed, yet no complaints there. Athens should have hosted the games out of respect for the 100th anniversary of the modern Olympics that started in Athens in 1896!

What really mystifies me is the fact that their is so much outrage by Americans against China for human rights abuses yet Turkey's Istanbul (Constantinople) bid is ignored. Turkey's human rights record is just as horrible as China's yet no outrage.

This proves one point, the U.S. is in no position to determine the outcome of who hosts the Olympics. The U.S. is not credible enough to make a fair decision!

~ P. Papageorge