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2002-07-05

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Posted by Fred Pruitt 2002-07-05 12:44 pm|| || Front Page|| [11128 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 "Y'know... I can't help but feel a certain "Hue Massacre" sentimnet underlying Pilger's screed.
No doubt about it--the quality of this propaganda is beyond me, and it's obviously useless to attempt to argue against it or even discuss it.
But--I do feel a certain "Hue Massacre" mentality underlying it. And I find it frightening. I can easily picture him clubbing "evil" Yanks (or even "Yankee puppets" [to use ancient, slightly-dated Leftist jargon])to death and dumping the bodies contemptuously in mass graves. Pilger--and anyone who takes him seriously--is beyond moral hope.
Be warned, however--the Communist perpetrators of the Hue Massacre (committed during the 1968 Tet Offensive) have thus far eluded justice. And most of the Western Leftists and Anti-Americans who bear [at least] moral responsibility for the success of the Communists remain unrepentant, and guys like Pilger (and his fanbase) are a part of this longrunning phenomenon. These guys "won" once--and there's no reason to think they won't "win" again. In a sense, Al-Qaeda, the Jihad-fascists, and the Masssacre of 9/11 are bastard children of their's.
I must confess I'm at a loss on suggestions of how to deal with these people. While the "Pilgers" of this world consititute a "community" whose members always reinforce each other's mindset, they still reach out [unceasingly] to the mainstream. From what little I can see, most of us on the blogosphere only seem to be talking to oursleves, preaching to the choir so to speak. There is no use trying to argue--or even mock--the Pilgers; but their propaganda memes are deadly cultural viruses that must somehow be quarantined. The good thing about LGF and other blogs is that they provide a way to survey the spread of the epidemic, but what about quarantine? Treatment? Cure?"

Posted by Jay 2002-07-07 14:14:17|| 2002-07-07 14:14:17|| Front Page Top

#2 Sure there are folks worth hanging in Afghanisan. Look at all them Merkuns! Peace-loving peoples at the Mirror and Guardian would love to hang Merkuns. And only Merkuns.

Posted by Steve White 2002-07-05 13:03:33|| 2002-07-05 13:03:33|| Front Page Top

#3 At the tail end of the recent war, Northern Alliance principals chose to deliver Taleban parties, an armistice. In other words, the nominal "allied" indulgence of an armed peace, has allowed the same enemy to continue its aggression by other means. I don't think that people will ever learn that winning a limited war means: you put yourself in a position where you will have to wage total war on the same enemy.

Posted by RG Fulton 2002-07-05 23:30:40|| 2002-07-05 23:30:40|| Front Page Top

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