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		<title>By: rod masom</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2014 06:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What&#039;s really instructive for me about this hit piece on Diana West is the complete ABSENCE of any discussion of the book heavily cited in Diana West&#039;s &quot;American Betrayal&quot; entitled &quot;From Major Jordan&#039;s Diaries&quot; by, I believe, Major George Racey Jordan, which is truly ASTOUNDING! It&#039;s never been adequately answered by anyone as to it&#039;s thesis, including this scabrous attack by Ronald Radosh on Diana&#039;s book. In it, which I read many years ago, Jordan marshalls quite a bit of evidence that FDR and Harry Hopkins heavily, almost slavishly, would NOT deny anything to Stalin&#039;s murderous forces, including copious amounts of just about everything needed to win this war, i.e., tanks, jeeps, ammunition by the tons, munitions of ALL kinds, and also including heavy water and other types of materials used in making atomic bombs, etc., and all to a depraved dictator like Stalin, twenty times WORSE than Hitler, and by the time we shipped all this stuff to Stalin, pretty much FREE OF CHARGE, HE AND HIS DEMONIC ARMIES AND ADMINISTRATION HAD ALREADY MURDERED SOME SIXTEEN MILLION RUSSIAN KULAKS! Are you kidding me, Radosh? This was the absolutely WORST type of ally to have. And have you no decency, sir?]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What&#8217;s really instructive for me about this hit piece on Diana West is the complete ABSENCE of any discussion of the book heavily cited in Diana West&#8217;s &#8220;American Betrayal&#8221; entitled &#8220;From Major Jordan&#8217;s Diaries&#8221; by, I believe, Major George Racey Jordan, which is truly ASTOUNDING! It&#8217;s never been adequately answered by anyone as to it&#8217;s thesis, including this scabrous attack by Ronald Radosh on Diana&#8217;s book. In it, which I read many years ago, Jordan marshalls quite a bit of evidence that FDR and Harry Hopkins heavily, almost slavishly, would NOT deny anything to Stalin&#8217;s murderous forces, including copious amounts of just about everything needed to win this war, i.e., tanks, jeeps, ammunition by the tons, munitions of ALL kinds, and also including heavy water and other types of materials used in making atomic bombs, etc., and all to a depraved dictator like Stalin, twenty times WORSE than Hitler, and by the time we shipped all this stuff to Stalin, pretty much FREE OF CHARGE, HE AND HIS DEMONIC ARMIES AND ADMINISTRATION HAD ALREADY MURDERED SOME SIXTEEN MILLION RUSSIAN KULAKS! Are you kidding me, Radosh? This was the absolutely WORST type of ally to have. And have you no decency, sir?</p>
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		<title>By: HughdePayens</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[HughdePayens]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2014 16:41:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let&#039;s not forget that neo-conservatives are leftists mugged by reality. They only know one way to fight...the art of personal destruction.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Let&#8217;s not forget that neo-conservatives are leftists mugged by reality. They only know one way to fight&#8230;the art of personal destruction.</p>
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		<title>By: poptoy1949</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[poptoy1949]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Dec 2013 06:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I respectfully disagree with your last written sentence.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I respectfully disagree with your last written sentence.</p>
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		<title>By: Herzl Balfour</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Herzl Balfour]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Nov 2013 03:57:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Radosh should make clear that the Soviets put pressure on the Americans and British to open a second front against Germany in France during 1942 and 1943, and that Roosevelt and Churchill resisted this pressure. The U.S. Communist party and other Soviet sympathizers in the U.S. and Britain also pressured the Western powers to begin a second front during this period, but to no avail. West&#039;s conspiracy theory that Roosevelt and Churchill held back on an invasion of France until 1944 in order to enable the Russians to conquer Europe is contradicted by the fact that Russia wanted the Anglo-American alliance to move more quickly onto the European continent, not more slowly as West claims, in order to relieve pressure on the Russian forces on the Eastern front. If Roosevelt and Churchill had really been Soviet stooges as West insinuates, they would have ordered the invasion of France in 1942, before U.S. and British forces were ready. But the fact is that they resisted Soviet pressure for an early invasion.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Radosh should make clear that the Soviets put pressure on the Americans and British to open a second front against Germany in France during 1942 and 1943, and that Roosevelt and Churchill resisted this pressure. The U.S. Communist party and other Soviet sympathizers in the U.S. and Britain also pressured the Western powers to begin a second front during this period, but to no avail. West&#8217;s conspiracy theory that Roosevelt and Churchill held back on an invasion of France until 1944 in order to enable the Russians to conquer Europe is contradicted by the fact that Russia wanted the Anglo-American alliance to move more quickly onto the European continent, not more slowly as West claims, in order to relieve pressure on the Russian forces on the Eastern front. If Roosevelt and Churchill had really been Soviet stooges as West insinuates, they would have ordered the invasion of France in 1942, before U.S. and British forces were ready. But the fact is that they resisted Soviet pressure for an early invasion.</p>
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		<title>By: Herzl Balfour</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Herzl Balfour]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Nov 2013 02:33:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Herzl Balfour</p>
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		<title>By: haiku artist</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[haiku artist]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Nov 2013 13:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I also having been a lifelong liberal (Princeton undergrad) and student of every philosophy, religion and new age belief under the sun, accepted finally the truth of the gospel of Jesus Christ.  It took years upon years of owning and operating a second-hand bookstore to overcome my left wing political bias and the heavy deception of spiritual counterfeits.  The Holy Spirit (of truth) can reveal the reality of scripture even to intellectuals who invite the resurrected Jesus into their lives. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I also having been a lifelong liberal (Princeton undergrad) and student of every philosophy, religion and new age belief under the sun, accepted finally the truth of the gospel of Jesus Christ.  It took years upon years of owning and operating a second-hand bookstore to overcome my left wing political bias and the heavy deception of spiritual counterfeits.  The Holy Spirit (of truth) can reveal the reality of scripture even to intellectuals who invite the resurrected Jesus into their lives. </p>
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		<title>By: AlexanderGofen</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[AlexanderGofen]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Oct 2013 00:32:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The entire paradox and tragedy of the West/Soviet relations was exactly in that the West had always had all cards on its hands, and all the economic handles over Stalin and Sovetskih - yet the West&#039;s rulers preferred to willingly act as though de-facto vassals of the Soviet cannibals. After every next act of their voluntary surrender to Sovetskih, the West still could revolt and shake away the yoke, yet just sled down into even greater subjugation instead. Exactly the same controversy takes place now in the relations of the West/Islam, the West acting as though a dhimmy. 


It is a very complicated big picture how the Bolshevism succeeded to inroad so much into the Western elites. &quot;The American Betrayal&quot; tries to explain it, and my comparative analysis does it too: http://www.resonoelusono.com/2008vs1917.htm .


Islam has succeeded to inroad so much first of all due to the oil trade: http://www.resonoelusono.com/Imminent.htm .]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The entire paradox and tragedy of the West/Soviet relations was exactly in that the West had always had all cards on its hands, and all the economic handles over Stalin and Sovetskih &#8211; yet the West&#8217;s rulers preferred to willingly act as though de-facto vassals of the Soviet cannibals. After every next act of their voluntary surrender to Sovetskih, the West still could revolt and shake away the yoke, yet just sled down into even greater subjugation instead. Exactly the same controversy takes place now in the relations of the West/Islam, the West acting as though a dhimmy. </p>
<p>It is a very complicated big picture how the Bolshevism succeeded to inroad so much into the Western elites. &#8220;The American Betrayal&#8221; tries to explain it, and my comparative analysis does it too: <a href="http://www.resonoelusono.com/2008vs1917.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.resonoelusono.com/2008vs1917.htm</a> .</p>
<p>Islam has succeeded to inroad so much first of all due to the oil trade: <a href="http://www.resonoelusono.com/Imminent.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.resonoelusono.com/Imminent.htm</a> .</p>
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		<title>By: Guest</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Guest]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Oct 2013 19:33:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&quot;Allies had very strong economic handles on Stalin...&quot;

Presumably the &quot;Allies&quot; included the U.S.  and the &quot;strong economic handles on Stalin&quot; would suggest that they held the cards when dealing with him.
Yet, in an earlier post, you claimed that &quot;...America turned into a de-facto vassal of that cannibal.&quot;

So, which is it?]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Allies had very strong economic handles on Stalin&#8230;&#8221;</p>
<p>Presumably the &#8220;Allies&#8221; included the U.S.  and the &#8220;strong economic handles on Stalin&#8221; would suggest that they held the cards when dealing with him.<br />
Yet, in an earlier post, you claimed that &#8220;&#8230;America turned into a de-facto vassal of that cannibal.&#8221;</p>
<p>So, which is it?</p>
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		<title>By: Michael Johnson</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Johnson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Oct 2013 19:54:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Communism is a conspiracy if nothing else. It is a conspiracy with global dimensions and designs. It is a travesty that there is so much competition in conservative politics to be the big dog. Diana West&#039;s book has ample supporting documentation. Where documentation is missing because of government secrecy classification  or obfuscation, Ms. West uses logic and common sense and the perspective of time to come to a tentitive conclusion. The burden then shifts to the U.S. Government, the Russians or historians prove her wrong. 
There is in law a concept called constructive fraud. It arises when fraud can&#039;t be proved but certain hallmarks are present. Constructive fraud is legally deemed fraud and carries all the legal ramifications and sanctions as when the intent to commit fraud is proven. It must be so with conspiratorial ideologies as Communism and religions as Islam which codifies deceit in the Koran. In such cases it is foolish and suicidal to give the benefit of doubt or require all that is unknown to be known before reaching a working conclusion. If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck and acts like a duck it is deemed a duck regardless of what lable is given.  &quot;American Betrayal&quot; and it&#039;s author, Diana West has done more for the understanding of the past and present century than a mountain of academics.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Communism is a conspiracy if nothing else. It is a conspiracy with global dimensions and designs. It is a travesty that there is so much competition in conservative politics to be the big dog. Diana West&#8217;s book has ample supporting documentation. Where documentation is missing because of government secrecy classification  or obfuscation, Ms. West uses logic and common sense and the perspective of time to come to a tentitive conclusion. The burden then shifts to the U.S. Government, the Russians or historians prove her wrong.<br />
There is in law a concept called constructive fraud. It arises when fraud can&#8217;t be proved but certain hallmarks are present. Constructive fraud is legally deemed fraud and carries all the legal ramifications and sanctions as when the intent to commit fraud is proven. It must be so with conspiratorial ideologies as Communism and religions as Islam which codifies deceit in the Koran. In such cases it is foolish and suicidal to give the benefit of doubt or require all that is unknown to be known before reaching a working conclusion. If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck and acts like a duck it is deemed a duck regardless of what lable is given.  &#8220;American Betrayal&#8221; and it&#8217;s author, Diana West has done more for the understanding of the past and present century than a mountain of academics.</p>
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		<title>By: Richard Magner</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Richard Magner]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Oct 2013 19:33:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another non-professional historian example: Neal F. Thompson&#039;s &quot;Reckoning: Vietnam and America&#039;s Cold War Experience, 1945-1991&quot;]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Another non-professional historian example: Neal F. Thompson&#8217;s &#8220;Reckoning: Vietnam and America&#8217;s Cold War Experience, 1945-1991&#8243;</p>
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		<title>By: Slavko</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Slavko]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Oct 2013 17:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Professor Kors,
I was and am a great admirer of your work and writing but your defense of Radosh&#039;s vitriolic attack on West sounds like you are defending a friend because he asked you to. I am a survivor of Communism and to us who ended up in DP camps in Germany after WWII and saw how FDR and his entourage gave away half of Europe West&#039;s account sounds perfectly plausible. In fact she does a fantastic job in connecting all of the dots, something no one has done up to now. The massive outpouring of favorable opinion supporting her book attests to that. I need not remind you that some of the best accounts of the evil deeds of Communism were not written by professional historians, as for example Robert Conquest’s The Great Terror, Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s Gulag Archipelago or Viktor Suvorov’s Ice-Breaker. And up until recently the mainstream establishment historians denied, minimized or ignored the Ukrainian genocide-famine of 1932/33. In fact many even today still question if it was a genocide. And why remove a favorable review that originally appeared on Front Page? Smacks of soviet-like censorship to me. Why not leave both and let the public debate and decide its merits of faults? Two months after Radosh&#039;s take-down the consensus on the blogosphere is overwhelmingly one sided in support of West.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Professor Kors,<br />
I was and am a great admirer of your work and writing but your defense of Radosh&#8217;s vitriolic attack on West sounds like you are defending a friend because he asked you to. I am a survivor of Communism and to us who ended up in DP camps in Germany after WWII and saw how FDR and his entourage gave away half of Europe West&#8217;s account sounds perfectly plausible. In fact she does a fantastic job in connecting all of the dots, something no one has done up to now. The massive outpouring of favorable opinion supporting her book attests to that. I need not remind you that some of the best accounts of the evil deeds of Communism were not written by professional historians, as for example Robert Conquest’s The Great Terror, Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s Gulag Archipelago or Viktor Suvorov’s Ice-Breaker. And up until recently the mainstream establishment historians denied, minimized or ignored the Ukrainian genocide-famine of 1932/33. In fact many even today still question if it was a genocide. And why remove a favorable review that originally appeared on Front Page? Smacks of soviet-like censorship to me. Why not leave both and let the public debate and decide its merits of faults? Two months after Radosh&#8217;s take-down the consensus on the blogosphere is overwhelmingly one sided in support of West.</p>
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		<title>By: Slavko</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Slavko]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Oct 2013 16:32:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love Horowitz but in in removing the favorable first review he did a disservice to his reputation. This move reminded me of Stalin&#039;s penchant for air-brushing out  from photo faces of politburo members who fell our of grace. David, a suggestion: why not show both and let your readers decide? What are you afraid of?]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I love Horowitz but in in removing the favorable first review he did a disservice to his reputation. This move reminded me of Stalin&#8217;s penchant for air-brushing out  from photo faces of politburo members who fell our of grace. David, a suggestion: why not show both and let your readers decide? What are you afraid of?</p>
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		<title>By: Nick</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nick]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Sep 2013 02:41:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&quot;Perhaps they didn’t because there no longer is any controversy. At a conference on Soviet espionage held a week before his untimely death, West’s source, Eduard Mark, publicly stated that he now acknowledged that Harry Hopkins was not Agent 19, and that the conclusion he had reached in his 1998 article was false.&quot;



Shouldn&#039;t that read: Mark stated in a private setting that he now thought that Hopkins was not Agent 19, something which no one who was not there at the time could have known. Mark did not have time to state this publicly, because of his untimely death a week later. So there was no way in the world that Diana West could have been aware of Mark&#039;s opinion on this matter. But I&#039;d still like to criticize her, so I&#039;m going to pretend that it&#039;s not at all unreasonable of me to expect her to be aware of what was said during this private conversation. (Btw one of the other parties involved denies that this private conversation ever took place, but let&#039;s not worry about that.)]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Perhaps they didn’t because there no longer is any controversy. At a conference on Soviet espionage held a week before his untimely death, West’s source, Eduard Mark, publicly stated that he now acknowledged that Harry Hopkins was not Agent 19, and that the conclusion he had reached in his 1998 article was false.&#8221;</p>
<p>Shouldn&#8217;t that read: Mark stated in a private setting that he now thought that Hopkins was not Agent 19, something which no one who was not there at the time could have known. Mark did not have time to state this publicly, because of his untimely death a week later. So there was no way in the world that Diana West could have been aware of Mark&#8217;s opinion on this matter. But I&#8217;d still like to criticize her, so I&#8217;m going to pretend that it&#8217;s not at all unreasonable of me to expect her to be aware of what was said during this private conversation. (Btw one of the other parties involved denies that this private conversation ever took place, but let&#8217;s not worry about that.)</p>
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		<title>By: Eric Paddon</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Eric Paddon]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Sep 2013 01:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In addition to that, Radosh&#039;s section on the Second Front Debate is a joke from start to finish.   As West noted in her rebuttal, she did not talk about a cross-channel invasion in 1943 instead of 1944 which is what Radosh is doing and furthermore she does *not* fault Churchill on the eventual strategy since she only echoes a point one could find back in a work like Robert Nisbet&#039;s &quot;Roosevelt and Stalin-The Failed Courtship.&quot;     Churchill ultimately believed Normandy could be done without sacrificing the Italian campaign, and West also notes how the misguided ANVIL campaign was even more devastating to the Churchill perspective ultimately.    Just like Nisbet, West&#039;s depiction is not of Churchill as a Stalin stooge but as someone who has more sense of the long-term ramifications and is ultimately thwarted by the prevailing pro-Stalin mindset that existed in the FDR delegation.     The only time Churchill ever comes up for any criticism is in relation to the Katyn cover-up but West merely reports matter of factly what Churchill did without passing specific judgment on him, personally.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In addition to that, Radosh&#8217;s section on the Second Front Debate is a joke from start to finish.   As West noted in her rebuttal, she did not talk about a cross-channel invasion in 1943 instead of 1944 which is what Radosh is doing and furthermore she does *not* fault Churchill on the eventual strategy since she only echoes a point one could find back in a work like Robert Nisbet&#8217;s &#8220;Roosevelt and Stalin-The Failed Courtship.&#8221;     Churchill ultimately believed Normandy could be done without sacrificing the Italian campaign, and West also notes how the misguided ANVIL campaign was even more devastating to the Churchill perspective ultimately.    Just like Nisbet, West&#8217;s depiction is not of Churchill as a Stalin stooge but as someone who has more sense of the long-term ramifications and is ultimately thwarted by the prevailing pro-Stalin mindset that existed in the FDR delegation.     The only time Churchill ever comes up for any criticism is in relation to the Katyn cover-up but West merely reports matter of factly what Churchill did without passing specific judgment on him, personally.</p>
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		<title>By: Eric Paddon</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Eric Paddon]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Sep 2013 01:18:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ereading this asinine &quot;review&quot; I am struck by how Radosh tries to spin away the notion of how refusal to listen to potential peace feelers from anti-Nazi Germans wasn&#039;t &quot;realistic&quot;.    What he conveniently leaves out is that this is attached to the broader question of whether the *unconditional surrender* policy was a mistake that needlessly prolonged the war by (1) undermining anti-Nazi resistance to Hitler within Germany and (2) serving Soviet interests more than American interests.     And for him to say no scholar has ever questioned the wisdom of the &quot;unconditional surrender&quot; policy is not true (Thomas Fleming for instance in &quot;The New Dealers War&quot;).     It&#039;s debatable to be sure, but for Radosh to presume there is a goose-stepping uniformity on unconditional surrender and that West is therefore a &quot;kook&quot; for bringing up the subject is just a flat-out rubbish.     What&#039;s even more laughable is how he tries to spin away the idea that approaching anti-Nazi Germans (notice how Radosh tries to instead rhetorically depict the idea in his headline as if he is trying to suggest to the casual reader that West was calling for an alliance with Hitler against Stalin!) by suggesting how that would have been bad for American credibility because they had been depicting the Soviets in such heroic terms leading up to 1943.  Well, DUH!    That&#039;s the point of West&#039;s work that such a policy depicting them in this fashion had already been going on thanks in part to the efforts of the Soviet spies and propagandists inside the Administration, that oh, gee whiz, Radosh is clearly interested in minimizing the role of since he doesn&#039;t think there&#039; s any &quot;conspiracy&quot; going on involving these 500 plus agents that had any signficant impact on the policy judgments of the administration.   Talk about trying to have your cake and eat it too!
This review is a fraud from start to finish beacuse it presumes airs of pretentious superiority it isn&#039;t entitled to possess based on the fact that even if one can take issue with some of West&#039;s points (as even I can), the deeper questions she raises are ones we need to think about and are not worthy of being consigned to &quot;kookdom&quot; by a preening egotist like Ron Radosh.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>ereading this asinine &#8220;review&#8221; I am struck by how Radosh tries to spin away the notion of how refusal to listen to potential peace feelers from anti-Nazi Germans wasn&#8217;t &#8220;realistic&#8221;.    What he conveniently leaves out is that this is attached to the broader question of whether the *unconditional surrender* policy was a mistake that needlessly prolonged the war by (1) undermining anti-Nazi resistance to Hitler within Germany and (2) serving Soviet interests more than American interests.     And for him to say no scholar has ever questioned the wisdom of the &#8220;unconditional surrender&#8221; policy is not true (Thomas Fleming for instance in &#8220;The New Dealers War&#8221;).     It&#8217;s debatable to be sure, but for Radosh to presume there is a goose-stepping uniformity on unconditional surrender and that West is therefore a &#8220;kook&#8221; for bringing up the subject is just a flat-out rubbish.     What&#8217;s even more laughable is how he tries to spin away the idea that approaching anti-Nazi Germans (notice how Radosh tries to instead rhetorically depict the idea in his headline as if he is trying to suggest to the casual reader that West was calling for an alliance with Hitler against Stalin!) by suggesting how that would have been bad for American credibility because they had been depicting the Soviets in such heroic terms leading up to 1943.  Well, DUH!    That&#8217;s the point of West&#8217;s work that such a policy depicting them in this fashion had already been going on thanks in part to the efforts of the Soviet spies and propagandists inside the Administration, that oh, gee whiz, Radosh is clearly interested in minimizing the role of since he doesn&#8217;t think there&#8217; s any &#8220;conspiracy&#8221; going on involving these 500 plus agents that had any signficant impact on the policy judgments of the administration.   Talk about trying to have your cake and eat it too!<br />
This review is a fraud from start to finish beacuse it presumes airs of pretentious superiority it isn&#8217;t entitled to possess based on the fact that even if one can take issue with some of West&#8217;s points (as even I can), the deeper questions she raises are ones we need to think about and are not worthy of being consigned to &#8220;kookdom&#8221; by a preening egotist like Ron Radosh.</p>
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		<title>By: philbest</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Aug 2013 09:44:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have great respect for Professor Kors. But it is quite possible for an anti-communist like Radosh to still be &quot;soft on liberal leftism&quot; of the FDR variety. It is not Radosh&#039;s committal to anti-Communism that is in question here, it is his willingness to dismiss from his mind the possibility that many stalwart figures of the benign, &quot;liberal&quot; Left, might have been a lot softer on Communism than he, Radosh is. 

Even Jimmy Carter in the 1970&#039;s was saying there was enough room on the Planet for Communism to co-exist with the rest of the world. With this kind of weakness of judgement extant that late in the Democrat Party&#039;s top man, why not even more weakness than that in the 1930&#039;s? 

And I found M. Stanton Evan&#039;s book on McCarthy completely convincing. It is evident that the Democrats in the 1950&#039;s were perfectly capable of defending the indefensible and destroying effective &quot;anti-communists&quot;. 

British libertarian Sean Gabb pointed out very acutely a few years ago that the Left works diligently to shift the whole political spectrum by destroying those furthest from them. Gabb warned the Conservatives that if they went along with the Left in the UK, ruling libertarians like himself out of political consideration altogether, before long they, the Conservatives, would find themselves under attack as the new &quot;extreme right&quot;. 

It seems to me that the Democrats in the 1950&#039;s did something like this to McCarthy. This indeed did make them de facto traitors - but not because they were &quot;communists&quot;, rather that to them, politics is war, all the time. If taking down McCarthy was politically convenient, letting Communist subversives off scot-free was just collateral damage.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have great respect for Professor Kors. But it is quite possible for an anti-communist like Radosh to still be &#8220;soft on liberal leftism&#8221; of the FDR variety. It is not Radosh&#8217;s committal to anti-Communism that is in question here, it is his willingness to dismiss from his mind the possibility that many stalwart figures of the benign, &#8220;liberal&#8221; Left, might have been a lot softer on Communism than he, Radosh is. </p>
<p>Even Jimmy Carter in the 1970&#8242;s was saying there was enough room on the Planet for Communism to co-exist with the rest of the world. With this kind of weakness of judgement extant that late in the Democrat Party&#8217;s top man, why not even more weakness than that in the 1930&#8242;s? </p>
<p>And I found M. Stanton Evan&#8217;s book on McCarthy completely convincing. It is evident that the Democrats in the 1950&#8242;s were perfectly capable of defending the indefensible and destroying effective &#8220;anti-communists&#8221;. </p>
<p>British libertarian Sean Gabb pointed out very acutely a few years ago that the Left works diligently to shift the whole political spectrum by destroying those furthest from them. Gabb warned the Conservatives that if they went along with the Left in the UK, ruling libertarians like himself out of political consideration altogether, before long they, the Conservatives, would find themselves under attack as the new &#8220;extreme right&#8221;. </p>
<p>It seems to me that the Democrats in the 1950&#8242;s did something like this to McCarthy. This indeed did make them de facto traitors &#8211; but not because they were &#8220;communists&#8221;, rather that to them, politics is war, all the time. If taking down McCarthy was politically convenient, letting Communist subversives off scot-free was just collateral damage.</p>
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		<title>By: philbest</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[philbest]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Aug 2013 09:23:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes, I would like to know what Radosh would say about M. Stanton Evans&#039; book on McCarthy. If Radosh is using &quot;McCarthyism&quot; as a pejorative, he has evidently been content to let the Leftist lies about McCarthy stand. 


Stanton Evans is one guy whose opinion on Diana West&#039;s book, I would love to get.


I haven&#039;t yet read West&#039;s book, but I have believed ever since reading Evans&#039; &quot;Blacklisted by History&quot;, that there is a lot more pushback against the Left-defined history needed yet. I can quite believe that the USA of the 1930&#039;s was riddled with Communist sympathisers, including in the Democrat Party mainstream. The seduction of the politics of &quot;equality&quot; is strong for the economically illiterate, which most of the Democrats from the White House down, certainly were.  


Even now, there is evidently myriads of people on the &quot;libbewal&quot; Left who are incapable of learning from the lessons of history, and think enforced equality to be a credible political option.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yes, I would like to know what Radosh would say about M. Stanton Evans&#8217; book on McCarthy. If Radosh is using &#8220;McCarthyism&#8221; as a pejorative, he has evidently been content to let the Leftist lies about McCarthy stand. </p>
<p>Stanton Evans is one guy whose opinion on Diana West&#8217;s book, I would love to get.</p>
<p>I haven&#8217;t yet read West&#8217;s book, but I have believed ever since reading Evans&#8217; &#8220;Blacklisted by History&#8221;, that there is a lot more pushback against the Left-defined history needed yet. I can quite believe that the USA of the 1930&#8242;s was riddled with Communist sympathisers, including in the Democrat Party mainstream. The seduction of the politics of &#8220;equality&#8221; is strong for the economically illiterate, which most of the Democrats from the White House down, certainly were.  </p>
<p>Even now, there is evidently myriads of people on the &#8220;libbewal&#8221; Left who are incapable of learning from the lessons of history, and think enforced equality to be a credible political option.</p>
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		<title>By: Jason Roberts</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jason Roberts]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Aug 2013 17:52:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Clinnochio--You do not know what you are talking about.  The last word that I would ever use to describe Ron Radosh is gun shy.  The Rosenberg File was written in 1983.  You apparently have not read his many articles criticizing Oliver Stone&#039;s left wing documentary on Showtime or his recent piece at Pajamas Media criticizing the Nation for turning blind eye to compelling evidence that Harry Dexter White was a Soviet spy.  I suggest that you read Radosh&#039;s writings before making overgeneralizations about him.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Clinnochio&#8211;You do not know what you are talking about.  The last word that I would ever use to describe Ron Radosh is gun shy.  The Rosenberg File was written in 1983.  You apparently have not read his many articles criticizing Oliver Stone&#8217;s left wing documentary on Showtime or his recent piece at Pajamas Media criticizing the Nation for turning blind eye to compelling evidence that Harry Dexter White was a Soviet spy.  I suggest that you read Radosh&#8217;s writings before making overgeneralizations about him.</p>
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		<title>By: Eli Rabett</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Eli Rabett]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Aug 2013 15:38:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Having blown down West&#039;s strawhouse, you erect your own wrt the aims of anyone a millimeter to the left of you.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Having blown down West&#8217;s strawhouse, you erect your own wrt the aims of anyone a millimeter to the left of you.</p>
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		<title>By: WOOF</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[WOOF]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Aug 2013 04:14:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A valuable service, Mr. Gofen, thank you!]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A valuable service, Mr. Gofen, thank you!</p>
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