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To: Neeka who wrote (4477)8/7/2003 3:22:20 PM
From: LindyBill  Read Replies (1) of 793681
 
but you cannot say that a band of pro-Mao Foreign Service agents in China had any effect on Mao's triumph in China.


This is the key line. The Gentlemen involved were from Christian Missionary families, where they learned to speak Chinese.They were Eastern Establishment. They felt Mao was the wave of the future and we should be working with him. Would China have gone Commie anyway? Probably. The Russians were right there helping them, and we were involved in Europe.

The State Department guys gave their honest opinion. I have never read anything to make me believe they were traitors. They were just wrong.

I just did a quick search of my Library system on-line and pulled up about 98 volumes on China/US relations during and right after WWII. Huge subject.

The subject has been "PoMo'd" today. The "perception" is that Mao was inevitable, the State guys she mentioned were right, and McCarthy was the Villain. That is what you will get in any China/US History class at our Universities.

What I object to in Coulter is the same thing I object to with McCarthy. Too wide a brush. She tars people who were not Traitors, just wrong. McCarthy did the same.

I heard Congressman DeLay giving a speech to College Republicans over the weekend, and he asked, rhetorically, "Are the DEmocrats Patriots?" His answer was, "Yes they are. But they are wrong."
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