G. Edward Griffin - The Fearful Master - PDF Archive

Do we really want this kind of UN justice? Apparently we do, for when South Korean
President Syngman Rhee wanted to drive the Communists across the 38th Parallel and
liberate all of North Korea, President Eisenhower wrote to him and said: "It was indeed a
crime that those who attacked from the North invoked violence to unite Korea under their
rule. Not only as your official friend, but as your personal friend, I urge that your country
not embark upon a similar course." 21
While we have been following Eleanor Roosevelt's advice and learning "to adapt
ourselves to the kind of war which ends without victory," the Communists have done just
the opposite. While Presidents Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy and Johnson declare that
the United Nations is the cornerstone of United States foreign policy, Nikita Khrushchev
boasts:
Even if all the countries of the world adopted a decision that did not
accord with the interests of the Soviet Union and threatened its security,
the Soviet Union would not recognize such a decision but would uphold
its rights, relying on force. 22
What an uneven contest it is when one compares that with the utterances of our own
United Nations Ambassador Adlai Stevenson:
Every time, as a result of a confrontation of opinion, one of us says,
even to himself, "I hadn't quite seen it in that light before," or "I had no
idea you felt so strongly about this," or "That's a point I hadn't fully
appreciated"--every time we say something like that, even to ourselves,
somewhere in this vast celestial electronic board which charts our
movements toward or away from atomic annihilation, a little green light
flashes and the traffic of man moves an inch away from the point of
collision. 23
One can almost hear the following exchange:
Khrushchev: "Americans are criminals for having used germ warfare in Korea!"
Stevenson: "I hadn't seen it in that light before."
Khrushchev: "We will bury you!"
Stevenson: "I had no idea you felt so strongly about this."
Khrushchev: "Americans are filthy capitalist war mongers."
Stevenson: "That's a point I hadn't fully appreciated."
What Mr. Stevenson apparently has failed to understand is that when dealing with the
Communists, every time we move the traffic of man an inch away from the point of
collision the Communists then move the point of collision back an inch closer to the traffic
of man. In other words, every time we appease them in hopes that they will now stop
acting like Communists, they merely consolidate the gain we have granted them and then
press forward for more. In any contest, if one of the parties is willing to fight if necessary to
win, and the other states in advance that, not only is fighting unthinkable, but also that he
has no intention of trying to win, can there be any doubt as to which will triumph?