This is late in the day to post about this particular gem, but it is a bit hard to pass up. It seems that it is quite fashionable in the Washington, DC suburbs to blame George W. Bush for every treasonous act committed since the Carter administration:
He was a courtly State Department intelligence analyst from a prominent family who loved to sail and peruse the London Review of Books. Occasionally, he would voice frustration with U.S. policies, but to his liberal neighbors in Northwest D.C. it was nothing out of the ordinary. “We were all appalled by the Bush years,” one said.
What Walter Kendall Myers kept hidden, according to documents unsealed in court Friday, was a deep and long-standing anger toward his country, an anger that allegedly made him willing to spy for Cuba for three decades.
“I have become so bitter these past few months. Watching the evening news is a radicalizing experience,” he wrote in his diary in 1978, referring to what he described as greedy U.S. oil companies, inadequate health care and “the utter complacency of the oppressed” in America. On a trip to Cuba, federal law enforcement officials said in legal filings, Myers found a new inspiration: the communist revolution.
Myers became an agent – a spy – for Cuba in 1978. So he became a spy while Carter was in office – and continued right on through Reagan, George HW Bush, Clinton and GW Bush.
But, apparently, it is all GW Bush’s fault.
Both Myers and his wife are very much the children of privilege. They both come from families with money, position and power.
And they both turned on the very country that gave them what they had. They did so more than 30 years ago.
Yet the media – and their fellow travelers in the Washington, DC suburbs still want to hang the treason of the Myers on Bush.
Time to put all employees of the State Department through polygraph testing. They are privy to much of the same information as the CIA gets. No more country clubby, connection-driven State Department career employment without any scrutiny.
These people work for us, we need to know whether or not we are their only employer.
If they used the poly on State they’d have to fire half of them. I saw a Vietcong flag in the Vietnam desk officer room in the early 80s. There are gay parties at Embassy Baghdad today. An American officer was cleared to marry the head of Syrian diplomatic protocol and retained her security clearance. State used to allow Russians to wander about unescorted on the 7th floor. State is a bad, bad joke.
State is known by the rest of Washington as ‘Foggy Bottom’ for a reason. It has been one of the biggest nests of liberal elitists in government for decades.
As for blaming this on Bush, of course it’s his fault. Don’t you know that George W. Bush is responsible for all evil in the world since the beginning of time? What’s wrong with you?
Rationalizations do not have to be rational.
I am old enough to remember the odious refrain from the media during the 70s and 80s: The best way to defend the country is to keep it worth defending. It grew out of that ugly 60s slogan: America – Change It or Lose It.
By “keeping the country worth defending” our self-anointed moral and intellectual betters were saying: Enact government-controlled health care, end capitalism and the free market, give up free speech and freedom of religion and embrace worship of the State, surrender to history and bow before the Soviet Empire.
Myers and his wife are walking and talking examples of that attitude.