Liberals Go for Holocaust III

Fred Barnes writes in the Weekly Standard:

ON THE EVE of the election in Iraq, Democratic senator Edward Kennedy called President Bush's Iraq policy "a catastrophic failure." He demanded that American troops immediately begin to withdraw. "We have no choice," he declared, "but to make the best we can of the disaster we have created in Iraq." Kennedy said the retreat of American forces should be completed "as early as possible in 2006," and suggested that, in Iraq, American troops are a bigger problem than terrorists.

Kennedy invoked the ghost of Viet Nam and referred to Iraq as a quagmire. The first person to use the term “quagmire” to describe Viet Nam was Walter Cronkite, after turning against the war. The Peace Movement, John Kerry, Jane Fonda, Tom Hayden and the rest of the Left captured the old media – the one-way media - as the press turned against the US in Viet Nam and the rest is history.

Turn with me now to an article “Not Bombing Auschwitz a mistake”
co-authored by former Representative Steve Solarz, quoting former Senator and Presidential candidate George McGovern extensively.

Allied bomber pilots had Auschwitz in their gun sights yet were never given the order to attack.

George McGovern was one of those pilots. …

… Jewish organizations repeatedly asked the Roosevelt administration to order the bombing of Auschwitz and the railroad lines leading to the camp.

The U.S. War Department rejected the proposals as "impracticable," asserting that such raids would require "considerable diversion" …

The U.S. administration's "diversion" argument was just "a rationalization," McGovern said in the interview. How much of a "diversion" would it have been, when he and other U.S. bomber pilots were already flying over the area?...

"Franklin Roosevelt was a great man, and he was my political hero," said McGovern, "but I think he made two great mistakes in World War II: One was the internment of Japanese-Americans; (the other was) not to go after Auschwitz. ...

As George McGovern emphasized, the Auschwitz experience should produce "a determination that never again will we fail to exercise the full capacity of our strength in that direction ... we should have gone all out against Auschwitz, and we must never again permit genocide."

It need not be said that we won that war and the camps were finally liberated. But of course there have been other holocausts. The slogan "never again" has, until now, applied to the Jews, but no to other peoples.

What do Iraq, Viet Nam and the failure to bomb Auschwitz have in common? I’ll tell you , gentle reader:

The Left wants us to accept blood guilt for our failure to bomb Auschwitz.

The Left is proud of driving the US out of Viet Nam. The genocide that followed: the killing fields, the “re-education” camps, the boat people that followed are flushed down the memory hole. The success of the Left in Viet Nam and the millions that died as a result MUST NOT BE CONNECTED.

Let me say this as plainly as I can: the Kerrys, Kennedys, Fondas and Haydens; the Cronkites and their ilk in the MSM have blood on their hands. They knew what they were doing. They knew the holocaust that would follow, but they just did not care. And even after they saw what they had done, the still did not care. And because they held the keys to the printing presses and dominated the college campuses, the truth has never been told. The accusation has never been made, and they have never had to defend themselves.

They have built a legend of moral superiority around themselves, aided and abetted by their hangers on. Anti-war? Who in his right mind is for war? Bombing? Who in his right mind is for dropping bombs? But there are worse things than war. Genocide, when the guardians of the weak slink away is worse than war. And bombing death camps may be better than not bombing at all.

But since the Left has stolen the mantle of virtue, consigned the dead of Southeast Asia to oblivion, the Left wants to repeat the Viet Nam experience in Iraq.

And one of the leaders of this pack, Edward Kennedy, committed vehicular homicide by drowning his girlfriend in a moment of drunken driving. But an all seeing God may have intervened in the affairs of this world. Without that, this moral pustule may have become President. The world owes Mary Jo Kopechne a debt of gratitude.

I am grateful that a man with the moral sense of George Bush is president.

I pray for peace, but prepare for war because this time, the holocaust could happen, not just in the Middle East, but here.