By Al Benson Jr. On January 9, 2010 at 4:50 PM
by Al Benson Jr.
After several years of reading and researching, I've come to the conclusion that much of the Cold War was a farce perpetrated by the government at the highest levels. It has been pictured as a titanic struggle between the pro-freedom West and the Bolshevik totalitarians of the East. Actually, the leadership on both sides has been totalitarian--a fact that had to be concealed from the American public at all costs. It made some great headlines but, then, when you come back down off cloud nine and get back to where the rubber meets the road, and do a bit of analysis, you learn that it just ain't so.
Another thing I've noted over the years is that this country supposedly fought the Communists all around the world--and we have yet to win a war or any sort of serious engagement against them. In Korea, we basically ended up with a Mexican stand-off against them. A lot of American boys died--for what? When General MacArthur realized what the United Nations was really all about and refused to submit his battle plans to defeat the Reds in Korea to them he was fired.
During the Roosevelt administration Washington was literally infested with Communists. So were the armed forces. James Burnham wrote in The Web of Subversion that: "During 1953 the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations under Senator McCarthy uncovered part of the history of an underground cell and espionage apparatus that had operated and may still be operating at the Fort Monmouth, New Jersey, Signal Corps laboratories...There are indications that the Fort Monmouth cell had had in the past an active relation with the executed atomic spy, Julius Rosenberg. Rosenberg was himself, in fact, stationed at Fort Monmouth during 1940." Burnham also noted that a former Communist, Max Elitcher, "has testified in detail...concerning an underground Communist cell that existed for many years within the Navy Bureau of Ordinance." I know that we've all heard, over the decades, about "McCarthyism" and about how many thousands of lives McCarthy destroyed by his investigations. Sorry to burst that bubble, but it was all a pile of cow chips to begin with. While many may not have liked McCarthy's style of investigation and interrogation, he never went after anyone that he didn't already have the goods on as far as being affiliated with or part of the Communist apparatus. For his efforts to protect his country from Communist subversion he was censured. How's that for gratitude?
And then, of course, there was Alger Hiss of the State Department and his good buddies. According to G. Edward Griffin in his expose of the United Nations, The Fearful Master "This and similar official records reveal that the following men were key government figures in UN planning within the U.S. State Department and Treasury Department: Alger Hiss, Harry Dexter White, Virginius Frank Coe, Dean Acheson, Noel Field, Laurence Duggan, Henry Julian Wadleigh, John Carter Vincent, David Weintraub, Nathan Gregory Silvermaster, Harold Glasser, Victor Perlo, Irving Kaplan, Solomon Adler, Abraham George Silverman, William L. Ullman and William H. Taylor. With the single exception of Dean Acheson, all of these men have since been identified in sworn testimony as secret Communist agents! That's a pretty good record for State and Treasury isn't it?
John T. Flynn wrote While You Slept--our tragedy in Asia and who made it. Mr. Flynn told us about Roosevelt's grand design to get Stalin into the war against Japan. Flynn told us that Stalin wanted to grab as much of Eastern Europe as "the gullible Roosevelt would give him. In Asia he wanted Korea and he wanted a Communist China where he could work out his further schemes of aggression when the war ended." And "gullible" or duplicitous Roosevelt willingly gave him all he asked for. Indeed, Roosevelt told someone about Stalin that: "Stalin... doesn't want anything but security for his country, and I think if I give him everything I possibly can and ask nothing from him in return...he won't try to annex anything and will work with me for a world democracy and peace." Yeah, right! Had they told Roosevelt that pigs fly I wonder if he'd have bought that, too. Could he really have been that naive, even if he was sick? Someone who had that rosy a view of Stalin and the Communists, with the evidence that was available even then, should not have been in office. He was either totally naive or treasonous and I'm inclined to believe it was the latter rather than the former. Both he and his wife were so soft on Communism that, in different times, it would have been pathetic.
And then there was Viet Nam, with years and years of "war" against the Viet Cong, and over 50,000 dead Americans--and for what? Our boys were prevented by their own government from winning that one. "You can't bomb here or there and you can't chase the Reds into Cambodia and on and on ad nauseam." After all, the first ground rule of the New World Order is that the United States does not win wars against Communists. You are permitted to go wherever and to kill some of them and to lose some of your own men, but you are not allowed to defeat them permanently enough that they lose ground. Your men fight and die and you give the media a lot of grist for their propaganda mill about how you are attacking the poor and downtrodden, but you don't win. Winning against Communists is simply not acceptable and any officer that continues to do that will be dealt with. Remember MacArthur! Then, Rockefeller stooge, Henry Kissinger, who was, in fact, the real power in Washington (not Nixon, he only thought he was) went and "negotiated" with the Reds in Viet Nam and gave us "peace with honor" which was basically a retreat with dishonor. Our men fought, bled and died in Viet Nam for what--so Kissinger could negotiate Viet Nam into Communist hands a few short years after we left.
By the time we got to Reagan we had the "war" in Grenada, with lots of "conservative" rhetoric, little of which was ever matched by conservative action. Don't forget, Reagan was an actor before he was president. Oh, I know, while Reagan was in office the Berlin Wall came down, and many conservatives today look back to his presidency as "the good old days." But how much really changed in the Soviet Union that the commissars were not ready to change for their own reasons anyway? Now we have a batch of smaller countries instead of one big one, and that's a good idea, but what about the KGB? I understand their name has been changed to protect the guilty, but are they still in place over there? Try reading The State Within a State--the KGB and its hold on Russia, past present and future by Yevgenia Albats, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. There is some interesting stuff in that book about the supposedly-vanished KGB. It seems, as in most cases, we have fallen for forms rather than substance. So don't look for the United States to be real big at getting rid of Marxist totalitarians. Our leadership is too busy trying to introduce cultural Marxism into this country under the pretense that it is "democracy." They will never try to defeat it anywhere else because a house divided against itself cannot stand. Foolish Americans have elected a Marxist president, who has appointed radical socialist "czars" to carry out his imperial decrees. So, here we are, right on the verge of our own "Russian Revolution." Had we not had our own "French Revolution" here in the 1860s, from which we have never recovered, we might well not have to deal with what we have now, but that's another story.