Nomenklatura’s dissection of the leftist ideologues on campus is brilliant. These guys (and gals) are so stuck in a Ground Hog Day of “the movement” once and forever. Even when they mercifully leave the scene ,their disciples will carry on the Hate AmeriKKKa dialogue ad intinitum. I was at a workshop this week with educators from elite universities. The workshop dealt with 60′s themes (Civil Rights in the South) While some who lived it were generally flexible and saw a bigger picture; a number of the young “skulls full of mush” were rigid ideologues who were extremely pessimistic about the soul of the USA.
Old Blue- Any coercion in Christian proselytizing in times past is contrary to the letter and spirit of the New Testament while coercion is at the heart of Islamic teachings.
I agree at this point Christian missionary activity in Islamic lands is largely counter- productive.
While Old Blue very astutely critiqued the Viet Nam analogy Terasita made; I would add the Viet Cong was never a local insurgency. At the time of the 1954 accords, some of the Viet Minh regulars stayed south of the DMZ and blended in with the Catholic refugees fleeing
Ho Chi Minh’s communist north. They were always the NVA junior auxillary and as such were Giap’s cannon fodder during Tet.