A Brief History…

In 1974, Kennedy sponsored legislation in the senate which by law cut off all American military, financial, technical and even agricultural support for the non-communist peoples of Indochina. At the same time the Soviet Union and Mao in China poured vast resources into their proxy states and groups. As a result, the following year, South Vietnam fell to a massive invasion from North Vietnam and the Khmer Rouge took over Cambodia.

The low bound estimate for the number of Vietnamese murdered by Ho Chi Min in the period of 1975-1977 stands a 165,000 thousand people murdered outright. Possibly even more died trying to escape across the seas in rickety boats over the next five years. In Cambodia, the Khmer Rouge murdered as estimated 1.4 to 2.2 million people out of population of only 7 million. This made Cambodia the worst proportional democide in history.

Worse, our Kennedy engineered abandonment of the people of Indochina brought them no peace. Internal commuist warfare was constant from 1977-1992 and fall the Soviet Union.

One can also draw a line straight from Kennedy’s actions up through every major conflict we have fought including 911 up to the present day. Kennedy’s abandonment of the people of Indochina gave hope to every little despot with an AK-47 and a RPG that if they could just tie America down for a few years, Kennedy and his pals would grant them victory. Every anti-American group since 1975, including Al-Quada, publically based their strategy on the idea that Kennedy and friends would prevent the U.S. from striking back at them. Osama bin Laden in many of his writings and speeches repeatedly pointed to Kennedy’s legacy in Indochina as evidence that a small group like Al-Quada could defeat the might of the U.S.

So, we can lay 9/11 partially at Kennedy’s feet as well.

Senator Edward Kennedy was, and will remain, an outstanding example of a champagne socialist. Sociologically speaking, the type has been well recognized for quite some time. Indeed, in Turgenev’s great novel, Fathers and Sons, the hero Bazarov asks at one point if you can’t drink champagne just because you call yourself a socialist. The French similarly talk about those who vote on the Left but dine on the Right. Such people are exploiting their privileged position in society to curry favor with those less privileged, and so find the way to continue being privileged while also being applauded for it. Clever, or what?

The obituaries for Edward Kennedy have been more or less unmitigated eulogies. The general inference is that he was an outstanding and constructive politician with vast achievements to his credit. At most, there is an apologetic little insertion somewhere of the word “flawed” as though that excused and explained his failure to become president. In simple fact, he owed everything in his career, especially his position in the Senate, to the fact that he had been born who he was, too well-connected and too rich ever to have to work his passage on his own. If this isn’t privilege, what is? The years of good living and self-indulgence showed in his face, as once handsome features turned coarse and bloated. Physically, he could only waddle. As for morals, Chappaquiddick is only one incident among others when his behaviour proves him to have been a man of bad character.