Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed in 1953 for heading a spy ring that passed top-secret information about the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union. The New York Times still defends them. Jonathan Tobin comments: There’s a lingering leftist illusion that what the Rosenbergs did was a product of idealism. Though faith in the “socialist motherland” has long since faded, its vestigial elements still act to rationalize the actions of American communists who are thought to have been merely mistaken in their loyalties rather than having chosen to align themselves with evil against the cause of freedom. This attitude of tolerance toward communism is still based on myths such as that of the Rosenbergs innocence, and also on the belief that those who backed Moscow’s cause did not irretrievably compromise themselves. But the Rosenbergs did not die because of McCarthyite intolerance or judicial misconduct. They died because they were dedicated communist spies. The villains were those, like the Rosenbergs, who served Stalin’s kingdom of death and oppression and those who sought to rationalize or lie about their crimes. To argue to the contrary is to dishonor the memory of the tens of millions murdered by the communists and the many brave people who resisted them during the course of a long and ultimately successful Cold War against evil. commentarymagazine/
Posted on: Thu, 16 Oct 2014 14:37:30 +0000
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