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Jeane Kirkpatrick (November 19, 1926–December 7, 2006)

"When Marxist dictators shoot their way into power in Central America, the San Francisco Democrats don't blame the guerrillas and their Soviet allies. They blame United States policies of 100 years ago. But then they always blame America first."

- Ambassador to the U.N. Jeane Kirkpatrick.

Long before it was fashionable, Ambassador Kirkpatrick believed in victory of the west over Communism. At the time she said this, the world, the media and certainly the Democrats believed Communism would win over the west and that it was only a matter of time before what was surely inevitable would occur. Members of Congress were going to Nicaragua to make nice with communist dictatorships and undermining the Presidents Foriegn Policy as a way to make sure that we could make peace with our enemies on the best terms. We were giving up, ready to surrender in the face of the threat presented by the worlds Communist states. In many ways, the very same people advising today that we should talk to Syria and Iran also advised then that we should work with the Soviet Union to make the world safe. Others, like Ambassador Kirkpatrick thought otherwise. She was laughed at by the intelligencia, and mocked by Democrats as a stooge for that Idiot in the White House - Ronald Reagan.

Yet only 5 years later, the Soviet Union was gone, the Berlin Wall had fallen and the world awoke to a reality where Communism was not ascendant but finally seen by all to be the fraud that Ambassador Kirkpatrick and Ronald Reagan always knew it to be.

We do well in these dark times to remember that the future is always in motion and that a few determined and dedicated people can change the world for the better, for liberty, for freedom, for all mankind.

We shall prevail.

Posted @ December 08, 2006 08:17 AM | Current Affairs