G. Edward Griffin - The Fearful Master - PDF Archive

Secretly directing the anti-Communist side in this world-wide struggle is probably the most
important single facet of Communist strategy. As long as they have a comfortable degree
of control over their own opposition, they are perfectly willing to allow some realisticlooking
anti-Communism to occur. Otherwise, the anti-Communist followers would soon
become impatient with their leadership and take measures to replace it. But by allowing
the anti-Communists to go through the motions of fighting the Communists and, if
necessary, even allow them a few minor victories here and there, the Communist agents
within our ranks can be assured that ultimate victory will be theirs. No better illustration of
this strategy can be found then by merely observing the pattern of United States history
since the 1930's. It was this pattern in Korea that prompted General Mark Clark to state
that he feared Communists had wormed their way so deeply into our government that they
were able to exercise an inordinate degree of power in shaping the course of America. "I
could not help wondering and worrying whether we were faced with open enemies across
the conference table and hidden ones who sat with us in our most secret councils." 20
Here, then, are the significant results of the Korean War:
1. The war helped Red China solidify control over its people, who were
becoming ripe for revolt because of famine and harsh conditions.
(Tyrants have often used war or the threat of war to preoccupy the
minds of their restive subjects.)
2. The war climate in the United States had a similar distracting
influence on our people as well. Many disastrous measures were
introduced with little or no opposition because "we must stand behind
our government in this great moment of crisis."
3. The United States lost considerable prestige, particularly in Asia and
Latin America. We became the paper tiger that could not even defeat
tiny North Korea.
4. We needlessly sacrificed tens of thousands of American lives and
billions of dollars because other nations in the United Nations did not
want us to fight back in earnest.
5. We became further conditioned to the idea of having future control of
our military forces under the United Nations.
6. For the first time in American military history the United States was
not victorious.
This is what advocates of the United Nations hold up as the UN's greatest single
achievement! The whole situation should have appeared absurd, even to the casual
observer. The Communists attacked a peaceful country; the United Nations went through
the motions of pushing the aggressor back to his border but did everything it could to
make sure that there was no punishment for the crime. At the conference table, it treated
both the attacked and the attacker as respectable equals. It is like having someone enter
your home, attack your wife and shoot your children; and when you call for help, the police
merely place the intruder outside your house and tell him not to come back. When he
breaks in a second time, stabs you in the shoulder and sets fire to your house, the police
react by setting up a neutral committee to negotiate your differences.