Booting Decency
Today Max once again distorts history and, in the process, praises a psychopath:
Curtis LeMay?! Gen. LeMay was a psychotic who, as chief of the Strategic Air Command, deliberately attempted to start a nuclear war and later ran as George Wallace's sidekick in a explicitly racist presidential bid. Some peacemaker.
Le Duc Tho was a Vietnamese who was fighting in his own country against foreign occupation - American occupation. Some cynical aggressor.
Max Boot is either frighteningly stupid or a cynical liar. You choose.
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[...]The greatest peacemakers in modern history were generals like the Duke of Wellington, William Tecumseh Sherman, Curtis LeMay, George S. Patton and Ariel Sharon, who ruthlessly waged war on behalf of Western democracies. [Emphasis added.]
Curtis LeMay?! Gen. LeMay was a psychotic who, as chief of the Strategic Air Command, deliberately attempted to start a nuclear war and later ran as George Wallace's sidekick in a explicitly racist presidential bid. Some peacemaker.
[...]On two occasions, the prize was even granted to cynical aggressors — the PLO's Yasser Arafat and North Vietnam's Le Duc Tho — for whom a peace treaty was merely a tactical step on the way to achieving their ultimate aims by force. [Emphasis added.]
Le Duc Tho was a Vietnamese who was fighting in his own country against foreign occupation - American occupation. Some cynical aggressor.
Max Boot is either frighteningly stupid or a cynical liar. You choose.
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posted by spork_incident at Wednesday, August 02, 2006
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