Dan,
You REALLY don't get it,
do you?
No matter what justification
or equivilency one chooses to use, the moral problem in surrending to the
philosophy of one's enemies is that it makes the core assumption your side
is wrong, always was wrong, and has no reason to exist. If you have so
little faith in your country and its way of life that you can be talked
out of believiing in it -- and as noted, that's all that brainwashing really
is, not the programming seen in good but off the mark films like "The Manchurian
Candidate" -- you have little faith and respect for yourself.
The main reason most of the
Chinese and North Korean POWs didn't want to go back is that they had already
seen the "joys" of Communist socialism and wanted no part of it. The Communists
knew that, and it was one of the main reasons they were so demanding that
they all be returned to Communist control; can't have it said soldiers
went over to the other side in mass and willingly abandoned the true socialist
brotherhood of the workers and peasants. (Most of the ones who went back
after wanting to change sides endured the joy of reeducation camps, if
not shot or executed outright. We didn't do that to anyone of these 21
"turncoats", albeit they did serve time in federal prisons.)
For the life of me, the liberal
technique of "moral equivalency" fails to impress me that the individual
who believes has no core values himself.
Cookie Sewell
AMPS