David Horowitz On the Anti-War Left

David Horowitz On the Anti-War Left

David Horowitz: 9/11 and the “Anti-War” Left

A faithful comrade of Ho Chi Minh, Colonel Bui Tin became disillusioned only when he saw what the Communist victory he had worked so hard to achieve actually meant for his people. In 1995, he wrote: “Nowadays the aspiration of the vast majority of the Vietnamese people, both at home and abroad, is to see an early end to the politically conservative, despotic and authoritarian regime in Hanoi so that we can truly have a democratic government of the people, by the people, for the people.” (Bui Tin, Following Ho Chi Minh, p. 192) But the aspirations of the Vietnamese people are as invisible and lacking in concern to American radicals today as are the testimonies of the Iraqis freshly liberated from the prisons and torture chambers of Saddam Hussein.