Posted on 08/29/2005 10:34:04 AM PDT by Rodney King
The Quiet American by Grhame Greene is the quintessential anti vietnam novel. Written in 1955 while the French effort in then Indochina was raging, the novel explores and illustrates the various feelings regarding Vietnam that came to dominate American political culture in the late 1960's.
The protagnist of the book is a guy called Fowler. Fowler is an American hating, left-leaning atheist in the mold of Greene himself.
On the other side is a fellow named Pyle, who works at the American embassy and is a strident anti-communist.
Fowler is very Kerry-esque, tortured by every conceivable nuance missed by the US and Western governments, and ultimately finds himself far more sympathetic to the Communists than to the French, Americans or non-Communist nationalists.
This is the quintessential book opposing the French/American effort in Vietnam, and there is no doubt that Kerry read it.
Fowler goes on to conspire with the viet minh to have Pyle killed. Fowler's alibi for the evening when Pyle was killed? He was watching the movie Scaramouche.
The name of John Kerry's yacht? Scaramouche. Coincidence?
Nah, that's a scary douche...
heard that...
John Kerry sez: you never forget your first yacht...
Rodney, you're on to something here.
We all know that Kerry is a twisted individual with regard to the Vietnam period: he "visited Cambodia"; he "speaks Vietnamese"; he was "wounded three times." Lies, all of them, and Kerry has shown no restraint whatsoever in saying these things. Even trying to defend them when caught redhanded in the above lies.
So there's no doubt he would take yet another perverse pleasure in monumentalizing his seditious behavior post-1972 by naming his boat after the very same m.o. used by Fowler: "I was out watching Scaramouche" while engineering the destruction of both South Vietnamese and American foreign policy by collaborating with the Viet Minh Communists.
This is precisely the sort of sick humor that Kerry would love. Especially broadcasting his sedition and treason on the back of his boat. Yes, he would revel in promoting this joke on the "stupid" American public.
By the way, in "The Quiet American" Fowler's girlfriend Phoung is devastated and shamed by Fowler's actions, and goes back to being a dancehall girl despite Fowler's murderous plot.
In SE Asia, upwards of 3 million people died after Kerry's equally murderous handiwork.
"I was out watching Scaramouche", indeed.
Greene was a convert to Roman Catholicsm and a British patriot. One of his latter books "Monsignor Quixote" (my very favorite book of all time)is a heart warming celebration of Christian faith vs Communist propoganda. I can't recommend it highly enough.
I have read several Greene novels and have never perceived any sympathy for communism.
Dead on the mark. Coincidences and odd circumstances are far common than most people realize, the equivalent of figures that we see when gazing at passing clouds in summer.
I just figured he was a big Queen fan. 8^)
http://www.firstthings.com/ftissues/ft9911/opinion/royal.html
In a 1987 speech Greene gave in Moscow, he claimed to have observed a new thing: "We are fightingRoman Catholics are fightingtogether with Communists, and working together with Communists. We are fighting together against the Death Squads in El Salvador. We are fighting together against the Contras in Nicaragua. We are fighting together against General Pinochet in Chile." Gorbachev, who was present at this speech, was only two years away from pulling the plug on the Latin Communists, their Catholic sympathizers, and his own USSR. Greene concluded: "I even have a dream, Mr. General Secretary, that perhaps one day before I die, I shall know that there is an Ambassador of the Soviet Union giving good advice at the Vatican."
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