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Reprinted from NewsMax.com
Congressional Abetters of Communism
Ruined U.S. Security
Wes Vernon, NewsMax.com
Saturday, April 27, 2002
Editor’s Note: This is the final part of this series
WASHINGTON The breakdown in America’s security, dramatically revealed in the failures that led to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, did not happen overnight. It was decades in the making.
"Given the role of universities in shaping the ‘liberal’ culture,” writes David Horowitz, "the same powerful anti-American, anti-military, anti-CIA sentiments have prevailed in the left wing of the Democratic Party for thirty years.”
Exhibit A in Horowitz’s booklet "How the Left Undermined America’s Security” is the 27-year tenure of Rep. Ron Dellums, D-Calif., "the first sixties radical to penetrate the political mainstream,” who "was able - with the encouragement and cooperation of his colleagues - to establish himself as a power and player on both the Armed Services and Intelligence committees overseeing the nation’s security policy.”
David Horowitz, himself an ex-leftist who knows every one of their power plays, says the Berkeley congressman "was an ardent admirer of Fidel Castro’s Marxist dictatorship,” who had said, "My politics are to bring the walls down [in Washington].”
Communist Abetter From Berserkley
Dellums worked "hand-in-glove” with Soviet front groups, proposed scrapping all "offensive weapons,” opposed every U.S. effort to block the spread of communist rule, and in the 1980s "even turned over his congressional office to a Cuban intelligence agent organizing a network of ‘solidarity committees’ on U.S. campuses to support communist guerilla movements in Central America.”
When the Soviet Union’s invasion of Afghanistan in 1979 jolted then-President Jimmy Carter away from his previous rhetoric about "an inordinate fear of communism,” Dellums denounced Carter’s White House as "evil.”
Said Dellums, "We should totally dismantle every intelligence agency in the country, piece by piece, nail by nail, and brick by brick.”
"With full approval of the Democratic Party leadership in Congress,” Dellums chaired a subcommittee that oversaw U.S. military installations worldwide, where he enjoyed a top security clearance.
Ultimately, when Rep. Les Aspin, D-Wis., became Bill Clinton’s first secretary of defense, Dellums succeeded him as chairman of the House Armed Services Committee. Thus, the Horowitz report notes, he became "the most important member of the House in overseeing all U.S. military defenses, controlling their purse strings, and acting as chief House advisor on military matters to the president himself.”
Communist Abetter From Michigan
In the 1980s when the U.S. was fighting a fierce Cold War battle in Central America, Horowitz reminds us, Democrats appointed Rep. George Crockett, D-Mich., to head the House Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere Affairs.
Crockett began his career "as a lawyer for the Communist Party in Detroit.” He was the only House member to refuse to sign a resolution condemning the Soviet Union for shooting down a commercial South Korean airliner, KAL 007, "and the only member to vote against a House resolution condemning the Soviet Union for denying medical aid to U.S. Major Arthur Nicholson after he had been shot in East Germany and the Communists denied him medical aid for 45 minutes while he bled to death.”
Dellums and Crockett were prominent in Democrat congressional affairs and, as Horowtiz writes, "probably the most extreme supporters of the Communists in the Democratic caucus.” But they had powerful allies "in their efforts to protect the Sandinista regime [in Nicaragua] and the Communist guerillas.” They were aided and abetted by "House leaders like David Bonior and Senators Patrick Leahy and Chris Dodd, among others.”
The Democrat party’s sharp turn to the left was reflected in the 1972 presidential candidacy of George McGovern. McGovern was a war hero who "had become traumatized by the killing he had witnessed and transformed into a kind of premature peacenik,” as Horowitz puts it. With his candidacy, the radical leftists became more comfortable with the Democrats.
They and their kind had been driven out of the party by Harry Truman in 1948. They found a home that year in the third-party candidacy of Henry Wallace. Though not a communist himself, Wallace’s so-called Progressive Party was "a creation of the Communist Party and under its political control,” writes Horowitz.
Finally, we get back to Clinton, whose flip attitude toward security led to the appointment of the likes of Hazel O’Leary as energy secretary, when vital security measures were scuttled at that agency responsible for America’s nuclear labs.
On Nov. 7, 2001, Clinton shifted fault for the Sept. 11 attacks to "those of us who come from European lineages” who he said "are not entirely blameless.” To buttress his comment, he went back to the Crusades of a thousand years ago.
Horowitz describes this as possibly "the most disgraceful utterance ever to pass the lips of a former American president.”
The party that in 1948 had made Henry Wallace an outcast had now ratified his blame-America-first rhetoric of 1948.
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