Forty Years After Santo Domingo
Forty years ago today, U.S. Marines landed in the Dominican Republic. The American left has never recovered.
Judd Magilnick pens this great retrospective on LBJ's heading-off of a Communist coup in the Dominican Republic, and the leftist outcry in America both then and ever since. Ho Chi Minh, Pol Pot, "Limits to Growth", "Imperial Overstretch", "Moral Equivalence" and "Political Correctness": it all started here, lo these forty years ago this day.
The original is online at the American Spectator, but just in case, here it is below. — RDM
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Who’s Got Appendicitis Now?
Forty years ago today, U.S. Marines landed in the Dominican Republic. The American left has never recovered.
by Judd Magilnick
April 28, 2005
And the crabs are crazy, they scuttle back and forth,
The sand is burning
And the fish take flight and scatter from the sight,
their courses turning
As the seagulls rest on the cold cannon nest
the sea is churning.
The marines have landed on the shores of Santo Domingo.
— Phil Ochs (1965)
The sages of the Torah say that one does not really understand an experience until after 40 years…
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