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To: 2MAR$ who wrote (76181)	8/26/2006 12:59:09 PM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 173976

move to china

To: 2MAR$ who wrote (76181)	8/26/2006 1:03:07 PM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 173976

Red sea of academe? WALTER WILLIAMS By Walter E. Williams August 26, 2006 Grove City College publishes an excellent newsletter titled "Visions and Values." Its July 2006 edition features an interview with Richard Pipes, acclaimed Russian historian and Harvard University professor of Sovietology. The interview was conducted by Grove City College professor of political science Paul Kengor. Mr. Pipes, who served on the National Security Council during the Reagan administration, explained there are actually only a few communists among academics. At first glance, that's a puzzling observation, given the leftist bias at most college campuses. Messrs. Pipes and Kengor explain the puzzle in a way that makes perfect sense. While academic leftists, and I would include their media allies, are not communists, they are anti-anti-communists. In other words, they have contempt for right-wingers, conservatives or libertarians who are anti-communists. Why? Academic leftists, and their media allies, agree with many of the stated goals of communism, such as equal distribution of wealth, income equality and other goals spelled out in Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels' "Communist Manifesto." Leftist elites love the ideas of communism so much they are either blind to, or tolerant of, its many shortcomings. In practice, communism is nothing less than sheer barbarism that makes even the horrors of Nazism pale in comparison. Professor Rudolph J. Rummel of the University of Hawaii outlines that barbarism in his book "Death by Government," a comprehensive detailing of the roughly 170 million people murdered by their own governments during the 20th century. From 1917 to its collapse in 1991, the Soviet Union murdered about 62 million of its own people. During Mao Tse-tung's reign, 35,236,000, possibly more, Chinese citizens were murdered. By comparison, Adolf Hitler's Nazis managed to murder 21 million of Germany's citizens and citizens of nations they conquered. Adding these numbers to the 60 million lives lost in war makes the 20th century mankind's most brutal era. At home and abroad, leftists have thoroughly and commendably documented and condemned the horrors and crimes of Hitler and his fascist Nazi regime, but when have you heard them direct similar condemnation of Josef Stalin, his successors and Mao? By and large, they've chosen to overlook the horrors of communism. The reason for their reluctance to condemn the barbarism of communism is simple. Mr. Pipes says, "Intellectuals, by the very nature of their professions, grant enormous attention to words and ideas. And they are attracted by socialist ideas. They find that the ideas of communism are praiseworthy and attractive; that, to them, is more important than the practice of communism. Now Nazi ideals, on the other hand, were pure barbarism; nothing could be said in favor of them." Often, when people evaluate capitalism, they evaluate a system that exists on Earth. When they evaluate communism, they are talking about a nonexistent Utopia. What exists on Earth, with all of its problems and shortcomings, always will fail miserably when compared to a Utopia. The very attempt to achieve the utopian goals of communism requires ruthless suppression of the individual and an attack on any institution that might compromise the individual's loyalty to the state. That's why one of the first orders of business for communism, and those who support its ideas, is the attack on religion and the family. Rank nations according to whether they are closer to the capitalist or the communist end of the economic spectrum. Then rank nations according to human rights protections. Finally, rank nations according to per capita income. Without question, citizens of those nations closer to capitalism enjoy a higher standard of living and far greater liberty than those in nations closer to communism. Walter E. Williams is a nationally syndicated columnist and a professor of economics at George Mason University.

To: 2MAR$ who wrote (76181)	9/12/2006 10:26:18 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 173976

here was never a USA to lose What planet do you live on? and as far as super powers go the North Vietnamese kicked our asses right out into the sea , the greatest military victory over a super power the world has ever seen and in recorded human history Fraid not, Einstein. The Vietnam War was lost in the streets of Berkeley, not the battlefields of Vietnam. THe United States Army was never defeated in a major battle by either the Viet Cong or the NVA or both together. Or would YOU like to point out just which battle it was they lost? Freedom is not all it is cracked up to be as chairman Mao used to say You another fan of the genocidalist and dictator? we are going to beat this addiction to oil Which country do you think will do it for us, the Iranians or the Chinese? do you live in Kansas or used to ? No, but you seem to have just come up from the rabbit hole.