Social Work For Witless Socialists

clipped from article.nationalreview.com In 1980, after Soviet tanks rumbled into Afghanistan, Pres. Jimmy Carter experienced an epiphany. The former Georgia governor who in 1977 liberated the U.S. from its “inordinate fear of Communism” and pecked Brezhnev on both cheeks, declaring that he and the Soviet leader “shared similar dreams and aspirations,” was shocked by this naked aggression. “The action of the Soviets,” he admitted, “made a more dramatic change in my opinion of what the Soviets’ ultimate goals are than anything they’ve done the previous time I’ve been in office.” Some people are slow learners. Leave aside the 20 million dead under Stalin, the subjugation of Eastern Europe, the Gulag, and the show trials. In just the previous decade, the Soviets had tried and jailed Natan Sharansky and Alexander Ginsburg The liberal tendency to believe that international relations are a form of social work is unchanged.