History Lesson

pettyfog · Nov 9, 2005

"We have swept away {the Dictator}, but a great many {in the occupied areas} feel that the cure has been worse than the disease."
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How often have we heard this out of the MSM? Well, way back in 1946, to be precise!
Read it and THINK..

Add to that, if you want to note something telling... more than 1000 US servicemen and civilian contractors die in Germany, most from fragmented hold-outs, in year immediately following end of war.

-About John Dos Pasos

A social revolutionary, Dos Passos came to see the United States as two nations, one rich and one poor. He wrote about the injustice in the criminal convictions of Sacco and Vanzetti and joined with other notable personalities in the United States and Europe in a campaign to overturn their death sentences.
In 1928, Dos Passos spent several months in Russia studying their socialist system. He returned to Spain with Hemingway during the Spanish Civil War, but his views on the communist movement had already begun to change. Dos Passos broke with Hemingway and also Herbert Matthews (The Spanish Civil War by Hugh Thomas).
As Dos Passos grew older, he all but abandoned much of the leftist political rhetoric of his youth. In the mid-1930s he wrote a series of scathing articles about communist political theory. At a time when socialism was gaining popularity in Europe as a response to Fascism, Dos Passos' writings resulted in a sharp decline in international sales of his books.
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IOW: he was the typical 'creative', his views ran with a passion, and he tended to see no middle ground. "Libertarian" was not in his vernacular.

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Further thinking points:

10,000 allied casuaties on D-Day, alone... what if CNN were covering it 'live'.... Or Fox, for that matter?

Imagine Geraldo standing in the shelter of the cliffs, ducking and bleating about the carnage.

Remember how GREAT his coverage in New Orleans? His talk of 'stacked bodies' and rapes and murders in the Superdome?

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