"Michael Bryant" wrote in message
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During his 1971 congressional testimony about the Vietnam War, a man who
would one day seek the Democratic party's nomination in the 2004
presidential race was asked by a senator to assess the threat of Communism,
not just to Indochina, but to world peace in general. The witness responded,
"I think it is bogus, totally artificial. There is no threat. The Communists
are not about to take over our McDonald hamburger stands."

In the decade following the witness's testimony, the nonexistent threat
resulted in the slaughter of 2,000,000 Cambodians; the invasion of
Afghanistan by the Soviets; the internment of hundreds of thousands of
Vietnamese in reeducation camps; numerous civil wars and bloody insurgencies
in Central Africa, South and Central America and Southeast Asia; the mass
migration of hordes of starving refugees; the proliferation of
state-sponsored terrorism; the "disappearance" of hundreds of thousands of
"undesirables" and enemies of the state; the imprisonment and torture of
countless dissidents; and the continued brutal subjugation of more than
one-third of the world's population.