One of the things I saw in
even clearer terms in preparing my remarks and listening to the other
presentations was the extent to which the epic struggles over what we now quite
ignorantly and even superstitiously sum up as "McCarthyism" (tossing
a pinch or two of salt over the shoulder) may be seen on one level as an
extended cover-up by the executive branch of the calamitous, multi-pronged
impact of that 1933 decision.
Not that "McCarthyism" came up on our
discussion, the presence on the panel of Stan Evans, author of the seminal book overturning
decades of lies about Joe McCarthy notwithstanding. Still, FDR
"normalized" relations with Stalin on the heels of the Ukraine terror
famine -- a genocide of approximately six million Ukrainians. In doing so, FDR
not only palliated these crimes, he conferred legimitimacy on the Soviet system
that perpetrated them....To Read More.....
Editor's Update: This was added on 11/17/2013 at 4:48 PM.
Restoring History: Nov. 16, 1933, a Day that Should Live in Infamy By Diana West on Sunday, November 17, 2013 6:01 AM
Editor's Update: This was added on 11/17/2013 at 4:48 PM.
Restoring History: Nov. 16, 1933, a Day that Should Live in Infamy By Diana West on Sunday, November 17, 2013 6:01 AM
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