Jane Fonda: Our Fault?
At the recent peace rally in DC, Jane Fonda blamed the US for the genocides of Pol Pot and Uncle Ho.
At the rally, one of Bill O’Reilley’s producers asked Ms. Fonda what she thought about the three million people who were killed after the US pulled out of South Viet Nam. Ms. Fonda replied: “It’s too bad we caused it to happen by going in there in the first place.”
I have to say that Ms. Fonda’s take on history, and on human responsibility, is pretty interesting. Some how the United States, forced evil megalomaniacs to round innocent farmers up and shoot them by the hundreds of thousands. It wasn’t the megalomaniacs’ fault. They were completely at the mercy of the mind-control ray being used by the evil forces of the US. I wonder if she thinks the US used it’s mind-control ray to get Mohammed Atta and his buddies to fly fuel laden planes into tall buildings?
Is she really serious? Or was she just pulling the producer’s chain? It’s hard to imagine that she really thinks the US was responsible for Pol Pot’s, and Ho Chi Minh’s actions. After all, the US was in there trying to *prevent* that slaughter. It was only when our cowardly congress failed to heed President Ford’s pleadings to authorize air power to support South Viet Nam against the invasion by the north; that the genocides began in earnest.
No, I think the reality is that Ms. Fonda understands that her efforts in support of “peace” actually played a role in the millions of death that that peace caused. I think she doesn’t want to face that. I think she believes so strongly in the concept of “peace” that she’s willing to accept all costs.
Are you ever asked if you are “Uncle Bob from Fangoria?” I ask because of the coincidence of our names, and the fact that I was known as “Uncle Bob” to thousands of magazine readers in the early 1980s.
Since our politics differ quite a bit, I would hope you can find a way to distinguish yourself.
When we finally withdraw from Iraq, the bloodshed that follows will not be the responsibility of those of us who knew what a terrible idea the invasion was from day one. Vietnam, no different.
Comment by Robert H. Martin — January 11, 2008 @ 11:30 am