In 1956 many of us read and listened to news of the courageous Hungarian Freedom fighters with the hope our president would support them, this was Dwight Davids response;On November 2, 1956, the U.S. State Department sent this cable to Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia that sealed Hungary's fate: "The government of the United States does not look with favor upon governments unfriendly to the Soviet Union on the borders of the Soviet Union." That gave the Soviet Union the green light to return with full military force, secure in the knowledge that the United States would do nothing to save the free Hungarian government.
At 4 a.m. on November 4, the Russians roared back into Budapest with 200,000 soldiers (including trigger-happy troops from Mongolia), 5,000 tanks, and masses of heavy artillery. They were directed by Nikita Khrushchev, known forever after as "the butcher of Budapest."
Radio Budapest appealed to the United States and the United Nations: "We ask you to help us, to support us. Time is short. Help Hungary, help us, help us. . ." But nobody answered their desperate cries for help.
In 1961 we watched the brave cuban freedom fighters attempt to take Cuba back from Castro. After pledging support JFK left the fighters without support in the bay of pigs where most were killed or captured due to the bumbling of the JFK administration and thousands were than executed including some Americans. That was Kennedy's response
This week thousands of brave Iranians began protesting and are in the process of being killed or imprisoned or both and what does our president say:
we cannot be involved in the affairs in Iran. That is it. frightenly similar to Eisenhour's response for Hungary.
Now how Ronald Reagan Handled the Polish uprising in 1981:
As I speak to you tonight, the fate of a proud and ancient nation hangs in the balance. For a thousand years, Christmas has been celebrated in Poland, a land of deep religious faith, but this Christmas brings little joy to the courageous Polish people. They have been betrayed by their own government.
The men who rule them and their totalitarian allies fear the very freedom that the Polish people cherish. They have answered the stirrings of liberty with brute force, killings, mass arrests, and the setting up of concentration camps. Lech Walesa and other Solidarity leaders are imprisoned, their fate unknown. Factories, mines, universities, and homes have been assaulted.
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The target of this depression [repression] is the Solidarity Movement, but in attacking Solidarity its enemies attack an entire people. Ten million of Poland's 36 million citizens are members of Solidarity. Taken together with their families, they account for the overwhelming majority of the Polish nation. By persecuting Solidarity the Polish Government wages war against its own people.
I urge the Polish Government and its allies to consider the consequences of their actions. How can they possibly justify using naked force to crush a people who ask for nothing more than the right to lead their own lives in freedom and dignity? Brute force may intimidate, but it cannot form the basis of an enduring society, and the ailing Polish economy cannot be rebuilt with terror tactics.
I want emphatically to state tonight that if the outrages in Poland do not cease, we cannot and will not conduct "business as usual'' with the perpetrators and those who aid and abet them. Make no mistake, their crime will cost them dearly in their future dealings with America and free peoples everywhere. I do not make this statement lightly or without serious reflection.
Why can't this history repeat itself? It is clear this speach began the unraveling of the old soviet empire. Many documents released since then have shown that if the US had backed the Hungarian freedom fighters the situation would have been completely different as the russians were of the opinion they were not capable of sustaining aggression against the US.
Thanks Dwight David Eisenhour, John Fitzgerald Kennedy and Barack Hussein Obama. Swampy
At 4 a.m. on November 4, the Russians roared back into Budapest with 200,000 soldiers (including trigger-happy troops from Mongolia), 5,000 tanks, and masses of heavy artillery. They were directed by Nikita Khrushchev, known forever after as "the butcher of Budapest."
Radio Budapest appealed to the United States and the United Nations: "We ask you to help us, to support us. Time is short. Help Hungary, help us, help us. . ." But nobody answered their desperate cries for help.
In 1961 we watched the brave cuban freedom fighters attempt to take Cuba back from Castro. After pledging support JFK left the fighters without support in the bay of pigs where most were killed or captured due to the bumbling of the JFK administration and thousands were than executed including some Americans. That was Kennedy's response
This week thousands of brave Iranians began protesting and are in the process of being killed or imprisoned or both and what does our president say:
we cannot be involved in the affairs in Iran. That is it. frightenly similar to Eisenhour's response for Hungary.
Now how Ronald Reagan Handled the Polish uprising in 1981:
As I speak to you tonight, the fate of a proud and ancient nation hangs in the balance. For a thousand years, Christmas has been celebrated in Poland, a land of deep religious faith, but this Christmas brings little joy to the courageous Polish people. They have been betrayed by their own government.
The men who rule them and their totalitarian allies fear the very freedom that the Polish people cherish. They have answered the stirrings of liberty with brute force, killings, mass arrests, and the setting up of concentration camps. Lech Walesa and other Solidarity leaders are imprisoned, their fate unknown. Factories, mines, universities, and homes have been assaulted.
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The target of this depression [repression] is the Solidarity Movement, but in attacking Solidarity its enemies attack an entire people. Ten million of Poland's 36 million citizens are members of Solidarity. Taken together with their families, they account for the overwhelming majority of the Polish nation. By persecuting Solidarity the Polish Government wages war against its own people.
I urge the Polish Government and its allies to consider the consequences of their actions. How can they possibly justify using naked force to crush a people who ask for nothing more than the right to lead their own lives in freedom and dignity? Brute force may intimidate, but it cannot form the basis of an enduring society, and the ailing Polish economy cannot be rebuilt with terror tactics.
I want emphatically to state tonight that if the outrages in Poland do not cease, we cannot and will not conduct "business as usual'' with the perpetrators and those who aid and abet them. Make no mistake, their crime will cost them dearly in their future dealings with America and free peoples everywhere. I do not make this statement lightly or without serious reflection.
Why can't this history repeat itself? It is clear this speach began the unraveling of the old soviet empire. Many documents released since then have shown that if the US had backed the Hungarian freedom fighters the situation would have been completely different as the russians were of the opinion they were not capable of sustaining aggression against the US.
Thanks Dwight David Eisenhour, John Fitzgerald Kennedy and Barack Hussein Obama. Swampy
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