Repugnant - "MoveOn.Org", a left-wing-fundedsite
Repugnant - "MoveOn.Org", a left-wing-fundedsite that started as an anti-impeachment propaganda machine, is back in action - and their latest effort is a revival of the "Daisy Ad". The original version of this ad, from 1964, painted Barry Goldwater as a warhawk who'd bring on a nuclear war if elected president.
The spots are airing in 13 major cities - including the Twin Cities. (I'm willing to bet the other cities are San Francisco, New York, Seattle...but probably not El Paso, Nashville or Houston...)
MoveOn favors appeasement of Hussein, and parrots the lefty line that "we can win without war" - that the inspections, allowed to run their course, will be enough to bring Hussein's nuke program to heel.
As weapons inspections in Iraq kick into high gear, most of us are breathing a sigh of relief. But some in the Bush Administration are still dead set on war, even if the inspections are working.
They are, indeed, working - if by "working" one means "providing a facade of activity that allows those pre-disposed to pacifying dictators to feel like they're doing something useful to prevent future terrorism".
And the "Daisy Ad" is just as wrong today as it was 39 years ago. Appeasement doesn't prevent war. Carter's pusillanimity in facing Brezhnev and Khomeini didn't bring peace, Reagan's fearlessness and stated willingness to back up his words with strength did. Of course war is nothing to dive into lightly. Never. But either is the blanket appeasement of dictators with weapons of mass destruction. Which is what "Move On" is all about - and what they're trying to scare you into. By the way - this ad sends kids into a panic, which naturally upsets the parents, too - which is, of course, the purpose.
If the little girl in the Daisy Ad gets vaporized, it'll be because "Move On" and its ilk won the day, and allowed the dictators of the world to tinker in their labs in peace, 'til peace no longer suited them.
Absolutely sickening.
Posted by Mitch at
January 17, 2003 09:36 AM
