Why I Didn't March This Time (Nat Hentoff)

The Village Voice ^ | March 28th, 2003 | Nat Hentoff

[giotto]

Bill Clinton refused to act as well, instructing the State Department not to use the word genocide because then the United States would be expected to do something

Clinton's failure to deal with Bin Laden, his failure to properly investigate OKC, TWA 800, Egypt Air, and so many other failures to act in the interest of national security, can all be chalked up to the same reason--He was afraid that, if international terrorism was the cause, he would have to do something about it. And Clinton the Spineless is pathologically incapable of making difficult decisions.

[JOE6PAK]

Good read....but Hentoff is STILL a commie.

[Howlin]

Nat sure can come up with surprises when you least expect them, can't he?

Remember how he trashed Hillary Clinton?

Scathing articles about the Clintons and the protesters are MUCH better when they come from -- as someone else already said on here -- a honest liberal.

[headsonpikes]

Socialism + Nationalism = Genocide

When will the leftist dweebs ever understand simple history?

They can't, unfortunately; not unless they undergo an intellectual revolution, as Christopher Hitchins and Andrew Sullivan did.

Socialism + Nationalism = Genocide.

Simple, really.

[knighthawk]

Often, the executions have been carried out by the Fedayeen Saddam, a paramilitary group headed by Mr. Hussein's oldest son, 38-year-old Uday. These men, masked and clad in black, make the women kneel in busy city squares, along crowded sidewalks, or in neighborhood plots, then behead them with swords. The families of some victims have claimed they were innocent of any crime save that of criticizing Mr. Hussein.

Middle East list

If people want on or off this list, please let me know.

[knighthawk]

Amnesty Int:

Systematic torture of political prisoners
http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/engMDE140082001?OpenDocument&of=COUNTRIES%5CIRAQ?OpenDocument&of=COUNTRIES%5CIRAQ

Warning, the next site contains horrible methods of torture in Iraq:

http://homepage.tinet.ie/~yahussain/iraqtorture/iraqtorture.html#english

[OldFriend]

All the academic and useful idiot protestations are rooted in the hatred for our president, followed closely by a hatred of America and it's ideals.

[OldFriend]

Free health care and free education......must have been opined by none other than that intellectual giant of the left.....Barbara Walters.

[Bonaparte]

"Socialism + Nationalism = Genocide"

Yep. And "genocide," a 60s term coined by the left for the express purpose of trashing America, is never applied by them to America's enemies. When someone like Saddam murders a million of his own people, the left turns a blind eye to it. That's because most of these "peace" protestors have been brain-washed to believe in the communist doctrine of "historical necessity." Of course, they can't see this. They're not supposed to.

I've got to hand it to the liberal media and the left-dominant universities. They did a brilliant job of turning so many Americans into communist dupes.

[ellery]

bttt

[goldstategop]

Nat Hentoff is more libertarian than liberal these days. He's also (try twisting it around your tongue) a pro-life atheist.

[El Cid]

Re: Post 6

I get the impression the world is jealous of US power, and has scapegoated us out of pure jealous rage, without paying a moment's notice to the depth of the situation.

Its covetousness - a sin ingrained in all of us. I half believe if I lived in some loser third-rate country (say, France for example) I might like to see the USA get some comeuppance. This would be an initial sentiment - even though the brain would be saying that without the USA my 3rd rate loser country would be in dire straits ...
It takes maturity to look inside and be happy for those that have more than you do (and yes, our country has been greatly blessed) - and be grateful for what you do have (although if I did live in France I have to admit this would take some deep looking)...

[Hildy]

Geez...how old is Hentoff now...he must be ancient. I remember reading him in my teens. And he was old then!

[45Auto]

Hentoff claims to be more than just an 'honest liberal'; he claims to be foresquare behind the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, as well as claiming to be some sort of "Constitutional Scholar". Yet, when I wrote him some time back asking why he didn't support the entire Bill of Rights, specifically the 2nd Amendment, I got no reply. Typical liberal hypocrisy. Freedom of speech is worthless prattering without the power to back it up.

[Illbay]

A Leftist is ultimately going to be inconsistent. That's because the principles of our Constitutional Republic are inconsistent with Leftist doctrine.

But Hentoff is more like the old-style Left like Lincoln Steffens or Upton Sinclair. He doesn't hate America.

[rwfromkansas]

I relied heavily on Hentoff in looking up info on free speech suppression on college campuses.

He is a good guy in some ways, though I vehemently disagree with his broad interpretation of the establishment clause of the First Amendment.

He loves free speech though, that is for sure.

[rwfromkansas]

Don't you disagree that Bush is going to this war for the wrong reasons?

[EternalVigilance]

Thank God for free speech.

How else would the Left be making such jackasses of themselves...? ;-)

[paltz]

Nat Hentoff has described himself as a "civil libertarian" However, since he writes for the Village Voice, he's considered their "right wing nut"

[dwswager]

I think Jay Nordlinger said it best:

"Fine, fine. But let me just record this, briefly: The Communists in Vietnam were no picnic. As Vernon Walters said — I have quoted him many times — bombs fell on every village and hamlet for twelve years, and no one moved. It took the coming of the Communist "peace" to send 600,000 people out into the South China Sea, on anything that could float, to risk starvation, dehydration, piracy, and death.

So, support this war if you want: but let's not pretend that there was anything ignoble about American efforts in Vietnam, or that Vietnamese, when you prick them, bleed any less than Iraqis."