Deja vu All Over Again
Linda Chavez hits it out of the park this morning (hat tip: WorldMagBlog). This is why the political dynamic of the War on Terror is so familiar. We’ve been here before:
The current hysteria over the president’s authorization of some domestic intercepts by the National Security Agency reminds me of similar reaction by liberals to the Cold War.
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What is it about the liberal elite that automatically assumes the worst about our own government but is willing to assume only innocent intentions when it comes to those accused of wanting to do harm to America? Like liberal anti-anti-communists of the Cold War era, today’s anti-anti-terrorists assume nefarious intentions of the U.S. government, while clamoring to protect the rights of enemy agents operating in our country. Cold War liberals vigorously defended Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, convicted of giving the Soviet Union nuclear secrets, and State Department official Alger Hiss, one of several high-ranking Roosevelt administration appointees who spied for the Soviet Union. Even after the release of Soviet archival records and the Venona files, the secret communications between the Soviets and their U.S. agents decrypted by the U.S. Army’s Signal Intelligence Service, many liberals refused to admit the guilt of these individuals. Similarly, today’s anti-anti-terrorists refuse to acknowledge the threat of al-Qaeda agents and sympathizers in the United States, worrying instead that the real threat is from the American government, intent on spying on its own citizens.
BACKGROUND: More on Joe McCarthy.
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- Happy Fourth of July (July 4th, 2007)
- Churchill on Islam (July 2nd, 2007)
- Right Words (April 7th, 2007)
- What a jerk! (April 5th, 2007)
- The Multicultural Lie and the Clash of Civilizations (August 22nd, 2006)
