Topic: Foreign Policy
The Colors of Interventionism The Empire State Building is illuminated to celebrate sixty years of communism in Chinaby Del Sharp
(libertarian)
Saturday, October 3, 2009
Celebrating the birth of communist China, sixty years ago, by lighting the Empire State Building in the colors of our foreign policy, is a tip of the hat to truth.
It is this historical pattern of failure (if you believe freedom is the goal) that conservatives are reticent to recognize in the Republican party. While conservatives distrust tax and spend, big government, world government and UN bolstering liberals, they, for some unfathomable reason, trust implicitly, their ability to manage US foreign policy. American foreign policy is, essentially, the policy of managing other governments around the world.
The birth pangs of Red China can be traced back to the end of World War ll, at Yalta, when it was decided, unilaterally, by American and British diplomats that Russia should be given Manchuria for siding with the allies against Japan. Chiang Kai-shek was outraged. The Russian communists looted Manchuria, and upon exiting, left a healthy, well-trained puppet regime in place armed with ammunition and war supplies Russia had seized from Japan. At approximately the same time that Chiang had planned to begin the democratization of China, a war broke out in Manchuria. Curiously, at the same time that Russia was setting up a franchise in Manchuria, they were in North Korea setting up shop, too. Gen. MacAurthur, who wanted to win the war, was later fired for answering a congressman's inqiry as to why the UN forces were losing in Korea. Alternatively, where communists won, Gen. Marshall was rewarded with the title, Secretary of State.
Today, you might recognize a familiar pattern in hearing of UN and American condemnation of Chiang for "inexcusable aggression" in regaining territory lost to insurgent Chinese communist forces. Chiang was beleaguered by demands from the communists for "coalition government" while maintaining their own army; meetings agreed to and postponed twice by the communists; cease-fires that were violated by the communists. Although, ultimately, the communists refused to participate in the national assembly on November 15, 1946, a new democratic constitution was adopted on Christmas Day in 1946.
Finally, recognizing that the Russian led military conquest of all of China was the ultimate goal of the communists, Chiang decided to penetrate deeply into Manchuria to achieve sure victory. Chiang was determined to reduce the communists to civilian status so that the new government could settle in without constant insurrection. U.S. diplomats demanded that Chiang pull back, and he refused three times. Chiang knew that a truce would only allow the communist forces to regroup. He was right. It wasn't until the US government established an embargo of all aid to Chiang's nationalist forces that he finally agreed to a cease-fire.
It was during this embargo period, that Chiang's nationalist forces atrophied while the communists were able to regroup. As the Red Tide rolled in on the nationalists, the embargo was not lifted by congress until it was too late to have any positive effect. Eventually, Chiang surrendered the mainland to the communists and fled to Formosa, or what we now know as Taiwan. It is only a question of when the interventionists will finally surrender Taiwan to communist China. Fast forward to today, where we see the U.S. government refusing to recognize the lawful government and ouster of a would-be dictator in the Honduras, as our president cozies up with communist leaders allied with the exiled criminal.
At a State Department meeting in October 1949, to decide the future of the Far East, a list of *ten policies that could only have been written by the Russians were presented by American diplomats Owen Lattimore and Lawrence Rosinger, who were later identified, under oath, by Luis Budenz as members of the Communist Party. Gen. Marshall was sent to China in 1946 to stop the civil war and the fruits of his labors resulted in his being confirmed as Secretary of State, until Dean Acheson replaced him. During the 2000 presidential campaign, John McCain tried to upstage George Bush who previously said he was reading a biography of Acheson by artfully including his name in an answer on foreign policy. The point is that neo-cons have been running our foreign policy for decades, and it is appropriate to illuminate an American symbol in the red of communism and yellow of deceit and betrayal that gave birth to communist China.
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