A Surprising Friendship

World Magazine ^ | August 27, 2009 | Cal Thomas

[upbeat5]

OPINION: A columnist from the right side of the political spectrum will miss his longtime friend and ideological rival from the left | Cal Thomas

http://www.worldmag.com/webextra/15808

[upbeat5]

I guess Cal's trying to be charitable.

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

Anybody that calls a traitor friend will never find me a friend.

[WestwardHo]

just puke.

[mimaw]

I guess OLD Cal forgets about all the innocent children legally slain due to the support of his good friend Teddy and his ilk.

[flowerplough]

Over the years I came to see Sen. Kennedy not as a symbol but as a fellow human being who did not get up each morning seeking ways to harm the country.

Willingly blinded idiot, Cal Thomas?

KGB Letter Details Kennedy Offer To USSR

This letter which details Senator Edward Kennedy’s offer to help the Soviet Union defeat Reagan’s efforts to build up the nuclear deterrent in Europe was unearthed by a Times of London reporter in the 1990s after the KGB files were opened.

It got little or no attention, however, until the publication of Paul Kengor’s book "The Crusader – Ronald Reagan and the Fall of Communism."

But even then the actual text of the letter (which is in the book’s appendix pp 317-320) has gotten short shrift:

TEXT OF KGB LETTER ON SENATOR TED KENNEDY

Special Importance Committee on State Security of the USSR 14.05. 1983 No. 1029 Ch/OV Moscow

Regarding Senator Kennedy’s request to the General Secretary of the Communist Party Comrade Y.V. Andropov

Comrade Y.V. Andropov

On 9-10 May of this year, Senator Edward Kennedy’s close friend and trusted confidant J. Tunney was in Moscow. The senator charged Tunney to convey the following message, through confidential contacts, to the General Secretary of the Center Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Y. Andropov.

Senator Kennedy, like other rational people, is very troubled by the current state of Soviet-American relations. Events are developing such that this relationship coupled with the general state of global affairs will make the situation even more dangerous. The main reason for this is Reagan’s belligerence, and his firm commitment to deploy new American middle range nuclear weapons within Western Europe. ...

[jim macomber]

"Many on the right hated and demonized him, but I don’t ever recall his responding in kind."

Guess Cal was on vacation during the Bork hearings.