Code Pink

Code Pink
In pursuit of the truth – www.cinopsbegone.com – Saturday, April 4, 2009

Medea Benjamin is the founder of Code Pink, an anti-war activist group. She claims contact with 200,000 adherents. Bill O’Reilly interviewed her the other day. Last year on television, I saw her group protesting in front of a Marine Recruitment Center in Oakland. Who is responsible for Code Pink’s mindset?
As we study the mind and heart of these protesters, let me share with you three excerpts from a book* by David Horowitz and Ben Johnson.

1.) General Ion Mihai Pacepa was the highest-ranking intelligence official ever to defect from the Soviet bloc during the Cold War. In a commentary about the attacks on President Bush during the war in Iraq, Pacepa recalled: “Sowing the seeds of anti-Americanism by discrediting the American president was one of the main tasks of the Soviet-bloc intelligence community during the years I worked at its top level.” …
During the Vietnam War, General Pacepa wrote, Soviet intelligence “spread vitriolic stories around the world, pretending that America’s presidents sent Genghis Khan-style barbarian soldiers to Vietnam who raped at random, taped electrical wires to human genitals, cut off limbs, blew-up bodies and razed entire villages. Those weren’t facts. They were our tails, but … as Yuri Andropov, who conceived this dezinformatsiya war against the U.S., used to tell me, people are more willing to believe smut than holiness.”

Nor did this campaign to discredit the United States stop with Vietnam: As Pacepa explains: “The final goal of our anti-American offensive was to discourage the United States from protecting the world against communist terrorism and expansion. Sadly, we succeeded. After U.S. forces massacred some two million people in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. Another million tried to escape, but many died in the attempt. This tragedy also created a credibility gap between America and the rest of the world, damaged the cohesion of American foreign policy, and poisoned domestic debate in the United States.”

2.) While John F. Kennedy had summoned a previous generation of Democrats to “ask not what your country can do for you – {but} what you can do for your country,” the McGovern Democrats asked, “Why is our country hated?” as though their might be a reasonable answer. Unlike President Bush, who believes that America is hated because of its freedoms, the Left believes America is hated because it fits the profile the enemy has framed for it, an imperial oppressor of the weak and poor.
McGovern’s call for America to come home was not a plan to conserve America’s strength and restore America’s integrity. It was a plan to quarantine the American virus and save others from the infection….

3.) Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick, a Democrat who had left her party, would later call the new party leadership the “blame America first’ crowd.” Minimizing the threat of Communism, they viewed Marxist aggressions as understandable reactions to “root causes,” such as American “militarism” and “imperialism,” and the global market system. Instead of asking, “How does the totalitarian enemy threaten us and what can we do about it?” the Blame America-Firsters were asking, “Why do they hate us?” and “How can we appease them and atone for our guilt?” These questions rapidly became the twin concerns of a new, “progressive” foreign policy consensus, and the New York convention nominated Carter as its presidential candidate.

Anyone who has followed the anti-American war movement for decades will include the above excerpts in their analysis. Will history repeat itself under Obama? In some ways, Marx has had more influence on today’s America than our Founding Fathers.

*Party of Defeat, Spence Publishing Company, Dallas, 2008, p. 8-9, 24-25
George H. Kubeck