what have the neo-cons wrought against the “Old Right”???
Among the perspectives that no longer belong to the establishment Right but that could once be found regularly in the American Mercury, Human Events, National Review, and other conservative publications are the following: Woodrow Wilson and his outspokenly Anglophile Secretary of State, Robert Lansing, maneuvered us into World War I by treating the two belligerent sides unequally and excusing the British blockade, which was illegal under international law and starved German civilians. FDR behaved recklessly in dealing with imperial Japan in 1941, and whether he willed it or not, his actions were bound to lead to a Japanese attack. After Pearl Harbor, the US, led by such liberals as FDR and California governor Earl Warren, stripped American citizens of Japanese ancestry of their property and freedom as part of an attempt to frighten Americans into submission to the central government. (Significantly, Robert Taft was the sole Senate vote against Internment.) The Nuremberg trials were an example of victor’s justice that had no legal basis outside of the will of the antifascist winners, including Stalin. Moreover, World War II could have ended without insisting on “unconditional surrender” from the Axis powers; dropping atomic bombs on the Japanese was unnecessary for bringing about a just peace.
— “Victor’s History:Â Neocons Have Air-Brushed the Old Right Out of Our Past”, by author I’ll dig up in a minute, in the previous American, the one with the cover-story concerning Chas Freedom.
Notable is that the left-wing explanation for the imprisonment of Japanese – Americans was that it was a property grab. Beyond that, there’s a lot there that a “Conservative Movement” (whatever that is) should be glad to have thrown overboard.
The article goes on to flow sand at Martin Luther King, Jr. and praise Jesse Helms.