Indeed, by the time you read this he will have already spoken there for the dedication of this memorial.
The Victims of Communism Memorial will be dedicated on Tuesday morning, June 12, 2007, in Washington, D.C. Rep. Tom Lantos, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, will give the keynote address while Rep. Dana Rohrabacher will deliver remarks. President George W. Bush has also been invited to speak. A crowd of 1,000 including Congressional leaders, members of the diplomatic corps, ethnic leaders, foreign dignitaries, and Memorial supporters, is expected to attend the historic event.
Its a good thing, this memorial. AS the WapPo says:
The world has been reluctant to acknowledge the horrors of Communism… Now at last they will be memorialized.”
It is well.
But am I alone, in my perception of irony in having Lantos speak? I mean, I gather the logic is he lived under Communist rule. But considering his current politics and how closely they align with Marx, it’s rather like Hitler speaking at the opening of the memorial for the vitims of Nazism.
Of course none of this will make the press. If it does it’d be in below the fold on A-43, because it makes Bush look good, and Communism look bad.
Update:
Clearly, there is something of serendipity, here. I am reminded by Bryan at Hotair, that “Mr Gorbachev, Tear down this wall” was 20 years ago, yesterday.
Update ][: Billy notes John Venlet who offers a link and a quote worthwhile to this topic as well:
“To deny that more deaths were caused by Communism than war in the 20th century is as bad as being a Holocaust denier.”
(a comment on Robert Service’s article on the persistence of the socialist ideal)
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