Today marks the 60th anniversary of the beginning of the Korean War. North Korean forces swarmed across the border, the 38th Parallel, into South Korea. President Harry Truman called the invasion a “bandit raid” and our response a “police action”. The United States led a coalition of United Nations forces to repel the North Koreans. Under the leadership of General Douglas MacArthur, a brilliant amphibious assault at Inchon relieved retreating troops near Pusan. Cut off, the North Korean army collapsed and were routed. But victory was short-lived as China joined the fight, turning the “police action” into a three-year bloodbath testing the ideologies of Communism and the West.
A truce finally came, but the war has never officially ended. As all too apparent following the recent sinking of a South Korean warship by a North Korean submarine using a torpedo. Tensions remain high, especially since North Korea possesses nuclear weapons and is being run by a despotic madman. The North Koreans live in perhaps the most closed, totalitarian country on the planet. It’s people starve as their dear leader, Kim Sung Il, lives it up with Russian prostitutes and imported liquor and drugs.
Communism is still alive and well. Not only have we not learned the lessons of history, we’ve ignored them. Celebrities of the West make fashion statements with t-shirts of Che Guevara and handbags with quotes from Mao Zedong. Despite revelations following the release of KGB files after the fall of the Soviet Union, the American media and academe still call the warnings of Senator Joseph McCarthy mere lunatic ravings. The government of the United States was infiltrated by Communists, as were our unions, schools and other vital sectors. Even many of our churches today preach “social justice’ instead of the revealed word of God.
The political system responsible for the deaths of over 100 Million people, and the enslavement of nearly half the planet is viewed as being chic and hip. To criticize such is to be narrow minded or ignorant at best and crazy-paranoid at worst. We watch our own government drag us steadily further down the road to Communism. Statues of Stalin erected in Virginia. President Obama referring to World War Two as “the Great Patriotic War”. But then, the Harvard professor practicing ‘bow-boy diplomacy’ thinks our own Constitution is a “charter of negative liberties”.
Yes, Korea is the Forgotten War. Here we are, 60 years after it’s start and we have forgotten not only the battles and heroism of our soldiers, but why we fought. I can only imagine how the Korean War will be viewed at it’s 100th anniversary, should the forces of Communism continue to infiltrate and dominate our way of life. Parades celebrating the “great patriotic war” with Americans carrying tributes to Marx, Lenin, Stalin and …? Well, I’ll let you imagine who’s name I’m leaving out. I’ll give you a hint. He’s in Toronto this weekend.
June 25th, 2010 at 10:32 am
Excellent post! Bravo! It’s very true, less we forget history, we will repeat it.
June 25th, 2010 at 10:52 am
Great work AZ. This is why Obama and his supporters are so dangerous. This society is full of communists. Many operate under the guise of “real patriots” from the left but are commie’s none-the-less. Unless this country wakes up it will all come to a bad end. Politics, the main stream media, unions and education have literally been taken over by them.
I think it will be ugly work to drain these swamps and, frankly, we may already be out of time.
June 25th, 2010 at 11:08 am
My ship was in Korea for the 25th anniversary of the end of hostilities. What a wonderful country with wonderful people. They loved Americans and seemed to cherish the freedom that we take for granted. Taiwan was the same way.
Maybe you have to come close to losing your freedom to appreciate it fully.
Obama could be our wake-up call.
June 25th, 2010 at 1:28 pm
Nice work Andy. Great article.
June 25th, 2010 at 3:14 pm
Thank you, all. This one probably will not get many views and hits but it was something I had to get off my chest.
June 25th, 2010 at 4:30 pm
Thank you Andy…my late husband was a Veteran of that war, and we discussed it often. Broke my heart, especially when he showed me old photo’s.
Even though I was but a child during that time, I will never forget it…I still remember my mama telly me daddy’s ship had to go fight a war in Korea so I could still roller skate.
Made no sense then, but does all these years later.
June 26th, 2010 at 7:32 am
Yes, thank you, Andy, wonderful post. Yes, the Communists are everywhere. I myself have been working on a great invention, special glasses that reveal these monstrous aliens for who they really are. With this invention, the people will finally wake up to this invasion which is amongst us, and hopefully take action.
Next invention, special weaponry. God bless the USA and the Second Amendment! When all is over and America is saved, we can erect a statue of Joe McCarthy, the second savior of our liberties, right next to the Lincoln Memorial.
I haven’t thought of what the inscription should be yet, but I will keep you posted. Something about Jesus and social justice, I guess–I don’t know.
June 26th, 2010 at 7:48 am
THE TRUE THREAT TO OUR LIBERTIES AND OUR FREEDOMS IS US.
That’s it! That’s the inscription I want on Joe McCarthy’s statue!
It’s perfect.
June 26th, 2010 at 9:24 am
Klo
I cant figure out which is more blissful for you.
Ignorance or stupidity ?
You really should study how communism seeped its way into many societies incrementaly like a Trojan horse with socialist policies that spread like a cancer eventually consuming all to the point of communist rule.
An editorial from the Communist Party USA:
Eye on the Prize
7/15/2008
Barack Obama is not a left candidate. This fact has seemingly surprised a number of progressive people who are bemoaning Obama’s “shift to the center.” (Right-wingers are happy to join them, suggesting Obama is a “flip-flopper.”) It’s sad that some who seek progressive change are missing the forest for the trees. But they will not dampen the wide and deep enthusiasm for blocking a third Bush term represented by John McCain, or for bringing Obama by a landslide into the White House with a large Democratic congressional majority.
A broad multiclass, multiracial movement is converging around Obama’s “Hope, change and unity” campaign because they see in it the thrilling opportunity to end 30 years of ultra-right rule and move our nation forward with a broadly progressive agenda.
This diverse movement combines a variety of political currents and aims in a working coalition that is crucial to social progress at this point. At the core are America’s working families, of all hues and ethnicities, whose determination to move forward does not depend on, and will not be diverted by, the daily twists and turns of this watershed presidential campaign. They are taking the long view.
Notably, the labor movement has stepped up its independent mobilization for this election. It is leading an unprecedented campaign to educate and unify its ranks to elect the nation’s first African American president. Last week, AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Richard Trumka told the Steelworkers convention that there is “no evil that’s inflicted more pain and more suffering than racism — and it’s something we in the labor movement have a special responsibility to challenge.”
If Obama’s candidacy represented nothing more than the spark for this profound initiative to unite the working class and defeat the pernicious influence of racism, it would be a transformative candidacy that would advance progressive politics for the long term.
The struggle to defeat the ultra-right and turn our country on a positive path will not end with Obama’s election. But that step will shift the ground for successful struggles going forward.
One thing is clear. None of the people’s struggles — from peace to universal health care to an economy that puts Main Street before Wall Street — will advance if McCain wins in November.
Let’s keep our eyes on the prize.”
June 26th, 2010 at 10:33 am
Klo,
The special glasses of which you speak can also identify the socially feeble-minded thus, they can be sent to a re-education camp to receive the kind of effective help they need. Buh-by Klo.
June 26th, 2010 at 5:30 pm
@ Klo
Yes, Klo, we can guess what coats you’re special glasses.