Time and truth are on the same side!
By Rich Kozlovich
The first site I visit when doing my searches is American Thinker, where I find really excellent commentaries from a number of writers, However,there are pieces that appear there, as is in every site I visit, when reading their views I wonder what planet they're living on. Then there are some that are pretty good, but still fail in their history.
One such article was this piece, Confessions of an 'old' Millennial, by Monroe Wesson, discussing this penchant for conservatives to be "classy" by not refuting the lies and crap leftists spew out against them, and he does a pretty good job of outlining that failure, but his train went off the rails saying:
As a child, I remember being taught how terrible Nixon was as a president, at least in TV shows, movies, and media. However, when I asked people who lived through the time of Nixon being president, every one of them told me, "They did him wrong" and "He was a great president!"
Saying Richard Nixon was a great president to me I shake my head, roll my eyes, and chuckle to think there are still people who are so clueless. While I agree they did him wrong, as it really was a conspiracy to get Nixon, which included the much lauded Judge Sirica, who was nothing more than a corrupt political hack, and was a part of that conspiracy, none of that changes the fact Nixon was a terrible President.
- He created the EPA, a virtual lava flow of scientifically dubious regulations, which Jay Lehr, my recently passed friend, and one of the original founders of EPA, said they've not done anything worthwhile since 1980 and need to be dismantled, and developed a five year plan to do so.
- He also passed a plethora of environmental laws that are detrimental to the nation, and just like all this global warming scam, they do little or nothing to save the environment, but they're costly to America.
- Nixon created OSHA, now a tyrannical monster, illegally used to force Americans to accept these fraudulent vaccinations which are killing untold thousands all over the world,
- He passed the Endangered Species Act, which has been another disaster, and over and over again it's the environmentalist's fall back position to prevent any number of projects, often fraudulently.
- He caused the ban on DDT, which was based on the lies of Rachel Carson’s science fiction book Silent Spring, which resulted in de-facto bans all over the world killing hundreds of millions of people since that ban in 1972.
When I read prominent people talking about how brilliant Richard Nixon was on foreign affairs that really "triggers" me, and I put Henry Kissinger in that same category. Nixon opened China up to the world's economy, and Kissinger was a major part of that. And now? Now he's lauding Trump, who's views are diametrically opposite of Nixon's and everything Kissinger stood for and promoted.
We shouldn't forget that Kissinger has been a globalist for all of his life, and the mentor and
sponsor of World Economic Forum Klaus Schwab who has been one of the
most destructive forces against capitalism and freedom in the world. And now, shocker of shockers, Kissinger's saying all the nations that bought into his globalism crap made a terrible mistake. Remarkable! This falls under the category of - "Whodda Thunk It!"
One has to ask: How can anyone so educated and so smart be so stupid? Answer: Ideology makes smart people stupid. This seeming support of Donald Trump's foreign policies is so out of character for him and the world view he's presented over and over again. It gives one pause wondering what's he up to. He's 100 years old, and he's out of time, and he knows it. I'm thinking he's taking this new tact in an attempt to ameliorate the disaster of his legacy. But I'm betting history will not be kind to Kissinger, his legacy, or his character. All of which I consider disgraceful.
Many years ago I had an account who was related to Kissinger, and while at an event he went up to Kissinger and said his grandfather, and Kissinger's grandfather were brothers, making them third cousins. Not that close by close enough to recognize each other as family, as my family has done.
I asked his wife what did Kissinger say? She answered, Kissinger said, "Ja", then rudely turned on his heel and walked away. That told me all I needed to know about Kissinger. If he told me day was light and night was dark, I'd have to go outside to make sure.
Nixon's Presidency was filled with huge mistakes, but opening up China to the world was his biggest mistake. Mao's economy after his violent and destructive Cultural Revolution was in shambles, and if Nixon had stayed home and minded the business of America, I seriously doubt the Chinese Communist Party would still be in existence. But he didn't, and now the world is paying the price for his, and Kissinger's stupidity. That gave the CCP the economy they needed to fund their war against America.
Nixon was a RINO before there were RINO’s, at least officially, and mostly because the Republican party didn’t have hardly any members who weren’t RINO’s in those days, and the difference between the Republicans and the Democrats was paper thin. That changed with the election of Ronald Reagan, and far more after the election of Donald Trump.
So please pay attention. Nixon was a terrible President. Accept it!
Nixon did some good things, some not so good. Like any policy move, opening China as a counter to the USSR was good realpolitik, but should have not been put on overdrive by Clinton and others. Nixon won re-election in a landslide in 1972, mainly because McGovern was such a bad alternative. The democrats could not forgive Nixon of that humiliation, so they drove him from office. Bottom line is that Nixon gave them the rope to use in hanging him.
ReplyDeleteI keep hearing that "realpolitik" argument, but it seems to me to be more a failure of long range vision and understanding. Now, instead of one communist power as a threat, we have two. Instead of recognizing Russia's economy couldn't possibly sustain their military aggression, they seem to think it didn't matter, and funded a second nightmare power as a "realpolitik" solution.
DeleteBoth Nixon and Kissinger had access to all the information they needed to understand that, and failed, in spite of the non-credible CIA's analyses, including their failure to recognize the USSR didn't have the nuclear missiles they claimed.