The 'New' Sharon?

My reaction on this has nothing to do with the Israeli election, but rather Safire's assertion that "warlike circumstances impel[led]" the American people to elect Richard Nixon. I can take only so much revisionist history, but I draw the line when it comes to that letch. Nixon committed treason and, as an un-elected, non-official, convinced the South Vietnamese that they would be better off if he were President, and they should therefore not attend the Paris peace talks and scoff at the bombing halt that President Johnson had ordered. The direct result? Five more years of war. Why five? Well he had to get re-elected you know. The evidence on these issues has driven them well past historical theory into unassailable fact. What remains to be seen is what other illegal clandestine operations Nixon partcipated in or orchestrated in contempt of his country and for his personal gain.
- posted by levinson @ 2/08/2001 06:00:00 AM