Posted on 02/16/2015 9:06:03 AM PST by rktman
The act of waving lists to decry an injustice is as old as the Republic. But when Senator Joseph McCarthy waved his list, almost exactly 65 years ago, it became much more than the usual political gesture. On February 9, 1950, during a speech he gave in West Virginia, McCarthy waved a list of 205 names of men he alleged were known Communists known as such by Secretary of State Dean Acheson. With this gesture, he worsened an already panicky situation, gave the angry public a ready-made explanation for why the country was losing the Cold War, helped foster class divisions in the country, and dealt anti-Communism a blow from which it did not recover for decades.
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You may be right about his personality flaw but I think any Republican would have been subjected to the same viscious character attack. How they would have reacted we'll never know. But it is likely that carter would have remained in the backwaters of American politics and the Middle East would be very different right now.
I sometimes wonder if the west needed to see just how evil islam can be with the overthrow of the Shah of Iran... though of course, it could be argued, even seeing hasn’t done all that much for a lot of westerners.
Western values do not grasp that difference and we pretend we have the moral high ground when, in reality, we don't have the courage to stop it.
The messages in question were mostly sent from 42 to 45, with a few as late as 48, like I said.
Attempts to decrypt them continues as late as 1980, but no new messages were intercepted after 48.
The whole program was due to the Reds screwing up and using duplicate one-time pads. Once they figured this out, they went back to pads used only once and decryption again became impossible.
History has proven McCarthy was right, the stench of liberalism had just began to infiltrate.
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