A good man in evil times

Pat Buchanan makes some good points about the presidency of Gerald Ford. For those who are too young to know, this is the most important thing I remember about his presidency:

Partly because of the pardon, the GOP suffered a loss of 48 House seats that November. In January 1975, a radical Congress was sworn in, determined to end all aid to our allies in Southeast Asia, bring about their defeat, then tear apart the CIA and FBI.

In April, Hanoi, with massive Soviet aid, launched an invasion of South Vietnam. Ford went to Congress to beg for assistance to our embattled Saigon allies. His request was rebuffed. Two Democrats walked out of the chamber.

Within weeks, South Vietnam and Cambodia had fallen, and Pol Pot's holocaust had begun. By summer, tens of thousands of Vietnamese had been executed, scores of thousands put into "re-education camps," and the first of hundreds of thousands had pushed off into the South China Sea, where many drowned and others met their fate at the hands of Thai pirates.

Watergate, the Nixon resignation and the political upheavals that accompanied it were not merely a domestic US affair. Thanks to these political events, millions of people died. They may have been little brown people and their deaths may be disassociated from the radicals and the Leftists who rioted in the streets, and that is how history is taught - for now. But the reality is far different. And when the people who still control the textbooks and the newspapers are dead and their grip on "reality" is loosened, this is how they will be remembered. The New York
Times and Walter Cronkite will be identified - with "Der Sturmer" - as accomplices to one of the greatest bloodbaths in the 20th century.