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2007-02-21 Home Front: Politix

Sleeping with the Enemy: Jim Webb: Then and Now

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Posted by Brett 2007-02-21 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11133 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I very much enjoy his movie Rules of Engagment, however I now realize he'll say anything now that he's a democratic politician and out to grab a vote. I'm definately confused too by his new stance.

Posted by Angenter Crolugum3645 2007-02-21 01:11|| 2007-02-21 01:11|| Front Page Top

#2 The only explanation I can come up with that doesn't involve psychiatry is anti-Semitism. Pat Buchanan, like Webb, sees our defeat in Vietnam as ignoble, yet opposes victory in Iraq. Buchanan, like Webb, sees this war as something the "neocons" (Jews) foisted on us, and has it in for Israel. Read Pitchfork Pat on Iraq, then read No-Class Webb on Iraq, and you'd swear they have the same speechwriter. Since the modern Democratic Party and the modern antiwar movement--but I repeat myself--are congenial to anti-Semitism (and anti-religious impulses of all stripes), that's where these guys gravitate to.

Posted by Mike 2007-02-21 06:14|| 2007-02-21 06:14|| Front Page Top

#3 the rallying point of the American Left: ~~to end all American assistance in any form to the besieged government of South Vietnam.~~ to lift all obstacles in the enslavemenyt of the South-Vietnamese and the genocide of Cambodians.

Fixed it for you.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2007-02-21 06:20|| 2007-02-21 06:20|| Front Page Top

#4 Intellectual and liberal Cambodians actually welcomed the Khmer Rouge into Phnom Penh. They thought it would be a welcome change from the corrupt Lon Nol government.

Of course, as educated people with foreign contacts, they were first up against the wall when the revolution came.

Posted by gromky 2007-02-21 08:31|| 2007-02-21 08:31|| Front Page Top

#5 Its been about 10 years since Webb published the article.

People change.

Posted by mhw 2007-02-21 08:49|| http://hypocrisy-incorporated.blogspot.com/]">[http://hypocrisy-incorporated.blogspot.com/] 2007-02-21 08:49|| Front Page Top

#6 Intellectual and liberal Cambodians actually welcomed the Khmer Rouge into Phnom Penh. They thought it would be a welcome change from the corrupt Lon Nol government.

Just like intellecrtual and liberal Americans would welcome jihadis into Washington.

Of course, as educated people with foreign contacts, they were first up against the wall when the revolution came.

Unfortuantaley Khmer Rouge weren't satisfied with putting against the wall a bunch of never-do-weels who thought themselves superiors because they had read, spit, Sartre and contemplated their navel, while being unable to solve a first degree equation. Over a million people who were NOT decadent "intellectuals" with a death wish accompanies them in death.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2007-02-21 09:19|| 2007-02-21 09:19|| Front Page Top

#7 That's the one thought that always gets me:

If/When the jihadis take over, the LLL (Hollywood, gays, Donks, etc.) will be the first to be put up against the wall and "re-educated."

Posted by BA 2007-02-21 09:26|| 2007-02-21 09:26|| Front Page Top

#8 I believe that thousands of Americans fully deserve to be tried and executed for treason and genocide for their conduct during the Vietnam War. I further believe that this statement is defensible on common law and constitutional grounds, if considered outside the limited mental horizon of mass media culture.
Potential defendants would include political and academic personalities as well as leading media figures. If we can defeat these same people and their successors and current proxy forces in this current war, it may yet happen.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2007-02-21 09:32|| 2007-02-21 09:32|| Front Page Top

#9 I believe that thousands of Americans fully deserve to be tried and executed for treason and genocide for their conduct during the Vietnam War.

Seconded. And for the conduct of so many during the current war. You could be sent to the stockade for spreading defeatism in England during the Second World War; I cannot understand how our common sense has failed us now.

Posted by Excalibur 2007-02-21 09:59|| 2007-02-21 09:59|| Front Page Top

#10 This is a textbook example of a 180° turn. And I mean 180.0000°, not 179.9999 or 180.0001!

Posted by Dar">Dar 2007-02-21 17:46|| 2007-02-21 17:46|| Front Page Top

#11 You can e-mail the distingusihed gentleman from Virginia here.

I did. It took me a long time to find his Senate website,but the "Elect Jim Webb " site pops right up on Google.

I have recently read two of your essays from about ten years ago, regarding the disgrace of Vietnam. I believe one was "The Triumph of Intellectual Dishonesty" and the second was "Sleeping With the Enemy". Excellent pieces!

I did not vote for you Senator, but had I read those essays last fall, I might have.

But I am confused. Your positions seem quite liberal, or perhaps just anti-conservative. Has your position changed so much in ten years? Did you write those essays?

Posted by Bobby 2007-02-21 18:14|| 2007-02-21 18:14|| Front Page Top

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