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Audacity of Truth
Whiner-in-Chief:
"[W]hether the grumbling is about Republicans on Fox or bloggers in pajamas, there's a word for what the president and his aides are doing. That word is "whining." And nothing [...] does more damage to Obama's credibility or authority than the sense that a popular president is becoming the whiner-in-chief."
- John Nichols, Nation Magazine - 10/12/09
Bush Derangement Syndrome in a nutshell
For those who are only casual followers of politics, or for those who aren’t quite sure what BDS actually means, this is it in a nutshell:
FDR okayed the internment of 120,000 Japanese American citizens (over half were children), with the Supremes’ blessings (essentially) – one of the most shameful acts by a US gov’t in American history – and in retrospect he is looked upon lovingly and admiringly by today’s left as one of the greatest presidents of all time. Here are some examples of what happened in those internment camps. Some Japanese Ameircans died for lack of medical care. Some were shot for “resisting orders.” That happened here. On US soil. Under FDR’s watch. But this guy was and is great. Never would have been any legit speculation that he wanted to be a “dictator.”
President Bush, OTOH, has 500 or so detainees locked up in Gitmo Bay -detainees who fly the flag for no country, has one American citizen (Jose Padilla) locked up as an enemy combatant here in the states, no allegations of ‘abuse’ at Gitmo have been substantiated, and all of a sudden this country is going to hell in a handbasket, “laws be damned,” Bush is the the next coming of Hitler, has a Stalin-esque control over the media at Gitmo, yada yada yada.
That’s the short version of BDS: thinking fondly of the man** who authorized internment camps for Japanese American citizens versus thinking the main who detains 500 suspected terrorists who fly the flag for no one is the 21st century Hitler.
**Not meant to imply that FDR was an ineffective WWII CIC.
Update: Here’s another prime instance of BDS gone madder. (Hat tip: ST reader Severian)
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ST agree on Bush and FDR also note below:
Oral History Interview with Karl R. Bendetsen General counsel, Department of the Army, 1949; Assistant Secretary of the Army, 1950-52; Under Secretary of the Army, 1952. New York City, New York October 24, 1972 by Jerry N. Hess NOTICE This is a transcript of a tape-recorded interview conducted for the Harry S. Truman Library. LINK
BENDETSEN: “Exactly. Internment was never intended. The intention and purpose was to resettle these persons east of the mountain ranges of the Cascades and Sierra Nevada, away from the sea frontier and away from the relatively open boundaries between Mexico and the states of Arizona and New Mexico.”
And: LINK
“When I returned on temporary duty, to my amazement, I learned that in every one of the ten centers there were grave problems. It seems that during the intervening months in each of the ten centers many militant activists had surfaced. Agitation was rife. There were fires; there were pitched battles. WRA had to provide heavy guard forces. All was in turmoil. No evacuees had been resettled at all since the time when the WRA assumed responsibility.We determined who the militants were in each center. We took a head count. The number of those who were apparently beyond any early rehabilitation was large. They and their families would fill a large relocation center. I then concluded after extensive analyses and consultations that the relocation center at Tule Lake, California, was of the size and had the right facilities to accommodate all of the identified militants and their families.”
I read the Carroll piece. The phrase “horse’s ass” comes to mind. He ends with some crap about not having the facts. He should check his own material.
Since this era is not one that I have too much interest in – I’m a buff of the Revolutionary War – I can only go on gut instinct and what I’ve read.
I keep hearing from the Left and the MSM that there was no real danger from the Japanese and Japanese-Americans who were uprooted and sent to internment camps. But I do recall reading at least one interesting case from Hawaii having to do with infiltrators and Japanese-Americans giving aid to them. Also the heroic actions of Hawaiians and Japanese-Americans there, to foil the plot.
I have no doubt that FDR’s actions may have been too much. But I agree with them, considering the time and the war. Trying to even things out based on present PC lunacy is simply childish and silly. It’s why I have to shake my head at Lefties bitching about Washington or Jefferson for being slaveholders. My response is, “So what? Who cares? That was over 200 years ago. Get over it! Grow up! Get a life!”
The same for a$$hats that have BDS and want Bush hung for interning animals captured on foreign battlefields.
Hey! Screw you! He’s right! The Supreme Court is wrong! Remember Dred Scott? Figure it out, Dip$hit$!
Sheesh!
Good God Mark Steyn made my morning with this piece. Maybe he made my week.