G. Edward Griffin - The Fearful Master - PDF Archive

capacity to feed and support their world slave empire. Nuclear war is a last resort for
them, and then only if they are positive of immediate victory.
Some people find comfort in this thought; but it is doubtful that they have any idea of what
living under Communism is like. They feel that any life--even life inside a Communist slave
labor camp--is better than risking death under the A-bomb. They are willing to send our
young men into battle to the four corners of the world to die for their safety and freedom
here at home, but they are not willing to risk their own hides for the same cause. Patrick
Henry's choice of "liberty or death" has now given way to the "better Red than dead" motto
of San Francisco's beatniks--and Washington's, too. As Adlai Stevenson paraphrased it:
"Compared with the stake of survival, every other interest is minor and every other
preoccupation petty." 2
If mere survival has now become more important to Americans than freedom and all
"other interests" or "preoccupations," then the men who sacrificed their lives at Lexington
and Concord, at Valley Forge, at Saipan and Normandy must loath us from the grave, for
we have asked them to die in vain.
The truly ironic part about all of this, however, is that we do not have to choose between
being Red or dead at all. If we wake up and move into action, we can be both alive and
free. All we have to do is be realistic about our situation and come to grips with the fact
that so long as the Kremlin is dedicated to world domination, we have no choice but to
keep ourselves well armed with the very latest weapons. Strength is the only language the
Communists understand and it is the only thing that has kept their commissars out of our
country so far.
That Senator Barry Goldwater is one of the realists who understands these facts of life, is
clear from his voting record against disarmament proposals as well as from his following
remarks:
If an enemy power is bent on conquering you, and proposes to turn all
of his resources to that end, he is at war with you; and you-- unless you
contemplate surrender-- are at war with him. Moreover-- unless you
contemplate treason-- your objective, like his, will be victory. Not peace,
but victory. . . .
Peace, to be sure, is a proper goal for American policy-- as long as it is
understood that peace is not all we seek. For we do not want the peace
of surrender. We want a peace in which freedom and justice will prevail,
and that-- given the nature of Communism-- is a peace in which Soviet
power will no longer be in position to threaten us and the rest of the
world. A tolerable peace, in other words, must follow victory over
Communism. We have been . . . years trying to bury that unpleasant
fact. It cannot be buried and any foreign policy that ignores it will lead to
our extinction as a nation.
We do not, of course, want to achieve victory by force of arms. If
possible, overt hostilities should always be avoided; especially is this so
when a shooting war may cause the death of many millions of people,
including our own. But we cannot, for that reason, make the avoidance
of a shooting war our chief objective. If we do that-- if we tell ourselves
that it is more important to avoid shooting than to keep our freedom-- we