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"I'm old enough to remember when the liberal western press denounced Ian Smith's Rhodesia as a racist, fascist oppressor and predicted utopia under the enlightened "Dr." Mugabe. Now that utopia has arrived, nothing but silence from these bozos. "

I am too Buddy. I would LOVE to get my hands on some of those articles to throw right back in their faces. Might be a good idea to republish them some way to illustrate the moral and intellectual vacuum that has always existed on the liberal philosophy and mindset. After decades of being totally wrong, you would think they would have learned from their past mistakes.

Nam Vet

They NEVER learn from their mistakes. They don't believe that they make any. : - (

Excerpted from "Hillary Clinton and the Radical Left' If others could understand your truth, you would not think of yourself as a "vanguard." You would no longer inhabit the morally charmed world of an elite, whose members alone can see the light and whose mission is to lead the unenlightened towards it. If everybody could see the promised horizon and knew the path to reach it, the future would already have happened and there would be no need for the vanguard of the saints.

That is both the ethical core and psychological heart of what it means to be a part of the left. That is where the gratification comes from. To see yourself as a social redeemer. To feel anointed. In other words: To be progressive is itself the most satisfying narcissism.

That is why it is of little concern to them that their socialist schemes have run aground, burying millions of human beings in their wake. That is why they don't care that their panaceas have caused more human suffering than all the injustices they have ever challenged. That is why they never learn from their "mistakes." That is why the continuance of Them is more important than any truth.

If you were active in the so-called "peace" movement or in the radical wing of the civil rights causes, why would you tell the truth? Why would you tell people that no, you weren't really a "peace activist," except in the sense that you were against America's war. Why would you draw attention to the fact that while you called yourselves "peace activists," you didn't oppose the Communists' war, and were gratified when America's enemies won?

What you were really against was not war at all, but American "imperialism" and American capitalism. What you truly hated was America's democracy, which you knew to be a "sham" because it was controlled by money in the end. That's why you wanted to "Bring the Troops Home," as your slogan said. Because if America's troops came home, America would lose and the Communists would win. And the progressive future would be one step closer. [End Excerpt]

After decades of being totally wrong, you would think they would have learned from their past mistakes.

They don't regard them as mistakes, because they've always had the best intentions, and "Don't stop thinkin' about tomorrow". Liberalism means never having to say you're sorry.