4 - Friday, February 1, 1991 - North Shore News

Lies your peacenik
mother told you

THE MORAL evasions and
slippery intellects of the
peace fascists would dumb-
found me. Except that I’ve
been there before.

Far from being woolly idealists
and touchingly naive, the
manipulators — the heart of the
peace movement — are
calculating, hard-headed, and
know exactly what they want: the
destruction of democracy, and
specifically of democracy’s Big
Enchilada, the United States.

(A brief interruption, worthy of
a longer one: any ‘‘democracy”’
that doesn’t include the right to
private business, private property,
and the privacy of the person —
the sacred right to be left alone —
isn’t one.)

So here are a few of the fies
your peacenik mother told you:

© In the present case before the
jury, Iraq's power play in the
Middle East, sanctions weren’t
given time to work.

The lie: it’s a subtle one, but
you'll notice that the sanction-
mongers of this school of thought
never state how long sanctions
should have been left to do their
work. And most interviewers,
especially in the electronic media
and most notoriously of course
the CBC, avoid asking them.

Hard cross-examination and
real debate would violate the
polite conventions of the media,
many of whose practitioners don’t
want to hear the answers anyway,
and would upset the tum-tums of
viewers and readers. So the slip-
pery sanction-pushers get away
with it.

Nor do they have to identify
whom the sanctions would hurt
first and most severely in a dic-
tatorship like Saddam Hussein’s.

And, not having been asked any
of those questions, they don’t
have to proclaim what action
they'd advise if sanctions were
seen to be failing, let alone who
could be trusted with the respon-
sibility of doing the seeing.

¢ Saddam’s fight is a fight on
behalf of the Third World.

The lie: the Third World needs

Trevor
Lautens

GARDEN OF BIASES

energy, needs oil, just like the
First and, if it’s still identifiable,
the Second.

Naturally, the overwhelmingly
non-democractic and mostly an-
ti-democratic governments of the
Third World would prefer to
blame their nations’ plight on the
evil First World than to reform
themselves, or to examine the
societal attitudes that contribute
to that plight.

The strong man, not the toler-
ant or the compassionate man, is
still vauntingly admired and even
worshipped in many such coun-
tries.

Thus both the rightist and leftist
dictators — hardly worth dif-
ferentiating at bottom — get a
free ride for the longest time sim-
ply by being routinely an-
ti-American.

The peace fascists in the First
World exploit this like mad.

On the basis that the enemy of
your enemy is your friend, how
can they be giving aid and com-
fort even to Saddam? Even toa
regime censured in the strongest
terms by the United Nations?
That has invaded another coun-
try? (Yes, hardly a democratic
one, but more decent than many:
The Economist points out that in
the early 1980s Kuwait gave more
of its gross national product to
foreign aid, four per cent, than

any nation in the world.)

That routinely speaks — how
readily we've become accustomed
to the monstrousness of the
thought — of using chemical and
biological weapons, outlawed by
the international community?

That hideously parades captured
and obviously injured and coerced
pilots on television and places
them in target areas, also violating
international agreements? How
can the peace fascists look
themselves in the face?

The answer is simple. And it
reveals the peace fascists’ real
agenda: they give such aid and
comfort to any regime, however
loathsome, however disreputable,
that challenges the democracies
and especially the United States
on the world stage, where
ideological melodrama can work
its propaganda on the gullible.
Especially on the young.

© “‘No blood for oil.’’

The lie and the total hypocrisy
of this argument by the peace
fascists — whose homes are
heated by oil or other forms of
energy like everyone else’s — was
brilliantly demonstrated in a letter
to the editor in last Saturday’s
Globe and Mail by the writer
Kildare Dobbs. In part:

“There can be sound reasons
for going to war (including)
down-to-earth things like food,
shelter, territory, and defence of
life and limb. One of these things
is fuel, which includes oil. It
belongs with firewood, coat, peat,
as a source of necessary warmth.
Blood for oil makes sense. It is
much more reasonable to fight
about fuel than about opinions.”’

Square hit. The oil companies
are making windfall profits? Tax
them accordingly (though no one
speaks about tax breaks for wind-
fall losses.)

And, speaking of windfall prof-
its, as we tsk-tsk commentators
and editorial writers are doing for
easy Brownie points, has anyone
in the daily papers and television
suggested the same thing on their
ballooned circulations and viewer
ratings in these last couple of
weeks? Just asking.

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