Seriously, this is good enough for even the Left to link to. Objective, smart, and good, if a bit brief.

In the dawn of the new millennium, I think we shall be seeing the internet grow to become a new battlefield. And this piece and others like it are perhaps the first steps at analyzing how that will work.

Good.

No offense, and no need. Good posts.

Sorry, but the key flaw with talking about "loosing" Turkey is that it assumes we every really HAD Turkey, much like talking in circles about who lost China failed to recognize that neither Chiang nor ourselves ever won it.

The modern "republic" has a PAINFULLY long history of Anti-Western connections, right up from its foundation by some ex-Ottoman nationalists who sought to avoid being held accountable for their actions and to reverse the Western Allied occupations after Serves. From the very onset, the "Father of the Turks" dammed his children with the most crippling of all wounds a Republic can have at birth: the institution of little oversight for the military, the infringement of individual rights, and the cultic worship...

Excellent article, save for one thing:

"Communists have committed countless crimes against humanity, but racism was not one of them."

Um, Holodomor, the ethnic cleansing of the Caucasus 1919-1946, Ethnic cleansing of Germans from Eastern Europe 1944-50, ethnic cleansing of Tibetans and Turkomen from Tibet and Sinkiang (respectively), the ethnic pogroms against Whites in Africa (as in: coming down in the dead of night to "redistribute" the land of a farmer by filling said farmer full of lead), and of course Papa Fidel's less-than-admirable track record regarding Blacks.

Granted, how much of these crimes are explicitly tied to their identity as Communists (ie, "redistributing the wealth", "All power to the Soviets",...

As for FDR, by all accounts at Yalta he was no longer fanatically trusting of Stalin, and his behavior in Poland and elsewhere in Eastern Europe had hardly left him entirely trusting Stalin's intentions (and his personal assistants and family noted this). However, he came into Yalta with the wrong mindset: that of curtailing further Soviet gains by recognizing the bare minimum he could that they had already taken, so that he could hold the Soviet issue off until the war against Japan was finished.

Unfortunately, the "bare minimum" was half of Europe and a third of Persia. Needless to say, he missed the chance to confront Stalin alongside Churchill and De Gaulle and possibly force him to back , and that failure is one that is...

"Eric, the North American Indians were victims. Not of white men abuse but of biological intolerance. It only took about 150 years starting in the late 1400's to kill 90 - 95% of native populations from the Carrebean through South American all the way northward to the Hurons in North America.

To be factually correct when the quote 'white settlers' arrived en masse in the 17th century most of the native indian poulation was already dead from small pox, plague, and other deadly diseases"

"The Soviets should have had a statue of FDR in Red Square -- he did more to help spread Communism around the world than Marx, Lenin, Trotsky and all the rest combined!"

Facts say otherwise. While FDR WAS very much an economic idiot, and Yalta is truly a day that will live in infamy, he DID wise up in his dying days, and he did do much to short-circuit the Soviet puppets in Western Europe. That, and considering the contributions of Lenin (organized Soviet Revolution, formation of USSR), Trotsky (organized the Red Army that outfought the Whites for supremacy in Russia), and others, I think you also don't appreciate what you are saying.

"The White Man in America DID NOT "drive the Native American from his land."" No, they...

"We do NOT have a history of "Slavery"."

Um, YES we do. Even though only a small minority really practiced it, that DOESN'T change the fact that it happened, and that Americans used it. Now, we also fought our bloodiest war to END that godforsaken abomination, so but that doesn't change the fact that it happened.

"We are NOT a nation that treats women as "second-class citizens."

Agreed.

"We do NOT persecute Gays!"

Agreed.

""Our nation is NOT the community property of the world!"

Agreed.

"Our nation was NOT made great by "Diversity""
Agreed, though I still question how this meshes with your apparent disdain for "Rights" and "Equality." Agreed

"Our influence in the...

For a Buchanan column, this wasn't so bad, and I also will add that I've seen similar examples of decay here in California.

That being said, I believe the message is done a disservice by the messenger. Say what you will, but hearing someone who ROUTINELY gets very fundamental facts about WWI, WWII, the Cold War, Georgia, the War on Terror, and the practicality of Isolationism today wrong talk about educational problems leaves one with a firm case of "Pot Kettle Black" syndrome,even if the accusations ARE true.