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Defend America on Saturday, December 05, 2009 12:02:36 AM
Alinsky Does Afghanistan
Obama’s radical inspiration would have loved his speech on the war.
By Andrew C. McCarthy
If
there is one word that captures President Obama’s much-anticipated
Afghanistan speech, it is “cynical.” Yes, the speech was also
internally contradictory, counter-historical, and premised on fatally
flawed assumptions about Islam and the Afghan people. Cynicism,
however, is the defining feature of Obama speeches. This one was no
different: from its use of the United States Military Academy as a prop
to its concluding assertion that “our resolve is unwavering” . . .
after the president had spent the preceding 40 minutes in full waver
mode.
There are two things to bear in mind in considering any
Obama speech, and they go double for those that touch on national
security.
First, the president is an Alinskyite, so steeped in
the ideology of the seminal community organizer that he became a top
instructor in Alinskyite tactics for other up-and-coming radicals. As
David Horowitz explains in an essential new pamphlet,
Barack Obama’s Rules for Revolution: The Alinsky Model,
Alinksyites are fifth-column radicals. They have, in substance, the
same goals as open revolutionaries: overthrowing the existing
free-market republic and replacing it with a radical’s utopia. That’s
why Obama could befriend such unrepentant former terrorists as Bill
Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, and take inspiration from Jeremiah Wright,
a black-liberation theologist. But Alinskyites are more sophisticated,
patient, and practical. They bore in, hollowing out the system from
within, appropriating the appearance and argot of mainstream society.
Their single, animating ambition is to overthrow the capitalist social
order, which they claim to see as racist, corrupt, exploitative,
imperialist, etc. Apart from that goal, everything else — from the
public option to Afghanistan — is negotiable: They reserve the right to
take any position on any matter, to say anything at any time, based on
the ebb and flow of popular opinion. That keeps them politically viable
while they radically transform society. Transform it into what, they
haven’t worked out in great detail — except that it will be perfect,
communal, equal, and just.
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