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Title: Useful Idiots: How Liberals Got It Wrong in the Cold War and Still Blame America First
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| Useful Idiots: How Liberals Got It Wrong in the Cold War and Still Blame America First by Harper Paperbacks great book for smart people, useless for trying to win over idiots | This is a book that puts together all the silliness of the Left. Especially enraging is how they 'blame America first' for all the troubles in the world. Most of the 'Useful Idiots' (a term Vladimir Lenin gave a hundred year ago for the same type of people!) portrayed in this book, Rich, Famous and self-absorbed!
You will never be able to show such people they are idiots, useful or otherwise. Talking to them would just give you a headache. But, talking to those who believe these people to be the 'Elite', will be more rewarding ( how smart can these people be if they are looking up to idiots?).
Still a good book, and enjoyable read, one that will make you mad, from time to time.
| | Useful Idiots: How Liberals Got It Wrong in the Cold War and Still Blame America First by Harper Paperbacks What is Ms Charen Really Looking For? | I can appreciate a person's view (and everyone has a right to free speech), but there are a few items I have read by Mona Charen that I question what her motivations are. She seems to not have much respect for anyone if they are not in total agreement with her views. In fact, she goes out of her way to skew and slant information to her viewpoints.
Of some of the articles I have read from Mona Charen she seems very angry and unhappy. It seems that she is only happy attacking others. It should be okay for people to have viewpoints, but to go out of the way to be venumous in her writings is very unprofessional. It seems more and more commonplace for people to make others wrong, than to work together to make things go right.
The key is we need to find ways to make things better, even if you don't agree 100% with someone's viewpoint, it is important to respect other's views, figure out how to work together, and focus on the good things in people in stead of the one thing that's bad. I can't say much about this book, but I wish Ms Charen the happiness she's looking for. | | Useful Idiots: How Liberals Got It Wrong in the Cold War and Still Blame America First by Harper Paperbacks Spreading | Useful to who?: our enemies. Charen has a unique way of making her point, and she does it with an intellectual wit. The book contains a litany of names: people who never seem to admit when they are wrong!; and with willing ignorance, are set out to rewrite history. And I think you all know who they might be. This is the phenomenon of liberal thought after W.W.II. Of course it does depend on who is in the white house..... doesn't it.
"I liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel"--------------Robert Frost
This mind-set (blaming America for the worlds ills) really started during the cold war, and so it continues, at an almost exponential rate. Charen begins with a brief history before the cold war. These men and woman have trivialized the Cold War and Russian communism; they utterly neglected the killings in Cambodia after Vietnam and sympathized for the enemy; they underestimated and looked the other way concerning Russian intervention........until Reagan. Reagan's (Bush parallel?) strength trumped Carter's passivity, ending the cold war. Vietnam brought in media bias, thus turning a blind eye to Russia. This is the rise of liberalism we know today.
How many times do we have to keep exposing the fiction and myth-making by the media, hollywood, and the liberal leaders on the same subject?
Did not Bill Clinton take our military into more conflicts than any other President? Wasn't this all but ignored? Mussolini made the trains run on time, right?
History has proved the liberals wrong, why should it be any different now? People desperately trying to escape oppressive countries understand the goodness the U.S. stands for, even more than our own people.
Wish you well
Scott
| | Useful Idiots: How Liberals Got It Wrong in the Cold War and Still Blame America First by Harper Paperbacks Refreshing: But Not Surprising. | | The author writes crisply without the vitriol of Ann Coulter. The avowed purpose of the book is to serve as an eternal reminder of the malignant gullibility of the American left{as in the blame the USA first crowd}, in dealing with world communism. It is worth the price just for all the verifiable quotes from a huge array of kooks. From Chris Dodd stating that Reagan was going against the tide of history, to the inane Ted Turner fawning over Gorbachev, to William Coffin's claiming that having nuclear weapons is innately sinful. The author also refutes the left's claim that they helped win the "cold war." She shows in detail that they opposed most tactics & strategies used by the free west to win. The only flaws in the book are that it should have come out earlier, & could have been twice as long. | | Useful Idiots: How Liberals Got It Wrong in the Cold War and Still Blame America First by Harper Paperbacks Idiots Then Idiots Now | Lenin is generally credited with saying that world communism has been aided by well-meaning but gullible useful idiots, most of whom he saw as western leftists who even back in the 1920s saw a kinship with communism. Not much has changed since then and in USEFUL IDIOTS, Mona Charen takes the entire liberal left to task for its decades long adherence to a philosophy that has brought ruin and genocide to millions but still exists in our universities even when it no longer does so in the Soviet state that spawned it. Despite the book's sales blurbs that suggest that leading Hollywood celebrities like Harry Belafonte and Susan Sarandon and MoveOn.Org politicians like Hillary Clinton and Al Gore are directly responsible for the all-pervasive tsunami of secular progressivism, these and others of a similar ilk get remarkably little ink. They emerge more as symbols of rather than originators of the useful idiots syndrome. Most of Charen's animus is directed toward the full spectrum of a liberalism that emerged from the 60s and the fallout from the Vietnam war that galvanized the left into seeing the United States not only as the source of imperialistic excesses but also of all the world's assorted ills. Her most telling chapters detail how "America's role in Vietnam set the tone for every Cold War debate that would follow for the next thirty-five years." (Page 28) Charen notes that while leftist fascination with America as intrinsically evil had existed even early enough for Lenin to offer his (sorry for the pun) left-handed compliment of useful idiots, "in the mid-1960s, leftist anti-Americanism went mainstream." (Page 29)
The bulk of Charen's book deals with liberalism in the aggregate. She notes how post 60s liberals saw Communism through the lens of a half-hearted sympathetic patina that somehow managed to excuse every Communist bloodbath while failing to excuse what it saw as a genocidal equivalent from the United States, even when it was clear that this equivalent existed more in the minds of the left than in the minds of the victims. The deaths of millions due to Stalin's forced collectivization is not only portrayed by the liberals as either non-existent or grossly exaggerated but even if it did happen, the United States was somehow at fault. This then is the core thesis of the left. Evil exists in this world, but where it has been identified, it originates in the capitalistic excesses of America. Mona Charen in USEFUL IDIOTS tells in compelling detail that idiots go through life with self-imposed blinders, the result of which is destructive to those who even now look to the left for help and guidance.
| | Useful Idiots: How Liberals Got It Wrong in the Cold War and Still Blame America First by Harper Paperbacks Product Description | Meet the "Useful Idiots" Al Gore, Ted Kennedy, Jimmy Carter, Jesse Jackson, Madeleine Albright, Katie Couric, Jane Fonda, Martin Sheen, and all the other liberals who were -- and are -- always willing to blame America first and defend its enemies as simply "misunderstood." Now that the Cold War has been won, these liberals, amazingly, are proud to claim credit for the victory -- conveniently forgetting their apologies for the Communists and their spluttering attacks on Cold Warriors like Ronald Reagan. But nationally syndicated columnist Mona Charen isn't about to let them rewrite history. From politicians and professors to entertainers and journalists, she exposes the useful idiots for all the world to see in this arresting New York Times bestseller. |
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