From: Platt Holden (pholden@sc.rr.com)
Date: Sun Aug 22 2004 - 18:30:57 BST
> dmb says:
> The Weekly Standard has an equally poor record and helped to spread
> misconceptions about the war as much as anyone. Scott Sherman's article,
> published in the August 30 issue of "The Nation", tells the sad tale.
> Enjoy.
Borrowing a tactic of radical leftists who attack messengers instead of
the message (witness the left's all out blitz against the swift boat
vets), the following excerpts from Ryan O'Donnell's article, "A Nation of
Fools" tells the sad tale of the bias built into "The Nation" magazine:
"As the flagship publication of the political Left, The Nation
consistently champions leftists' lost causes, supporting totalitarian and
Communist regimes while simultaneously rejecting any suggestion the United
States is justified in military, or even philosophical, opposition to
these rogue states. However, while The Nation's leftist vision of foreign
policy has been constant, it has also proven to be consistently wrong.
Throughout much of the twentieth century, and now, with its coverage of
Operation Iraqi Freedom in the twenty-first century, the political Left's
ideology, as profiled in The Nation, has been continually predictable,
shortsighted and ultimately erroneous with the vast majority of its
foreign policy analysis. Certainly, it would be unfair to criticize The
Nation for a few instances in which ideological fervor clouded the
publication's rationale. However, for almost a century now, the pages of
The Nation continues to illuminate the Left's analytical inaccuracies in
nearly every seminal foreign policy issue encountered by the United
States.
"The Soviet Republic is by no means the only doomed dictatorship that has
garnered support from The Nation and its leftist constituency. In the
heady days following the Cuban Revolution, The Nation's Carleton Beals, in
an article reflecting the Left's infatuation with all things Castro,
proclaimed Fidel a "hero," who had thus far "shown the finest qualities of
true leadership: self-sacrifice, dedication, patience, confidence and
ready pliability in the most difficult situations." Beals also praises
Castro's call for "free elections" while gushing, "The revolution sweeps
on in many directions...these are days of great promises and great hopes."
Unfortunately, Fidel Castro quickly extinguished any hope the Cuban people
may have felt; the only direction in which the country progressed was
towards poverty and despair. Yet, throughout Castro's brutal reign, the
political Left, as represented in the pages of The Nation, has been unable
to bring itself to criticize the gross human rights violations and abject
poverty that continue to strangle the Cuban people.
"The cruel truth is the Left despises the foundations upon which this
nation was built: liberty, individual responsibility and capitalism.
Raging blindly against everything American, they cannot help making common
cause with America's enemies. Only in totalitarian regimes is the Left's
hatred of the United States so perfectly reflected. Such a conclusion may
seem simplistic, but so are creatures driven by rancid instinct."
Platt
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