Karen Heller wrote on September
16 about Cynthia Ozick: "She is one of New York's two towering Jewish female
intellectual novelists, essayists and critics, the other being Susan
Sontag."
Sontag an intellectual ?
" Sontag qualifies as an intellectual only in the bizarre definitions
of contemporary America and most especially New York City. Where else could somebody who
wrote "the white race is the cancer of history" be so celebrated?
Would someone who wrote "Jews are the cancer of history" be so
honored? |
She has commented "America is founded on genocide" and "the
quality of American life is an insult to the possibilities of human growth.Sontag as one
of the great American humanitarians was in the lead in advocating intervention in Bosnia
during the Clinton administration. These noble creatures for the most part were ones who
advocated American withdrawal from Vietnam.
Susan Sontag vists Hanoi
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Susan Sontag during the war in Vietnam had gone to Hanoi in 1968 and had
been impressed with an ethical society whose rulers loved their people. She had thought
their only defect was that they were not "good enough haters". She professed
admiration for their caring treatment of captured American pilots. She told the trade
paper for New York intellectuals that one could only be happy about the victory of the
communists in Vietnam. Her behavior was identical with the French Communist Party which
had worked for the certain defeat of the French army in Vietnam.. |
During the continuing crisis in Bosnia she felt inspired to help those besieged in
Sarajevo. She produced plays. She must have felt her presence was such a positive one for
morale it warranted importing extra food into that besieged city. One might have wanted to
ask if at night she went out with a rifle and shot Serbs.
From Hollywood came an appeal that America must learn what the meaning of "never
again" truly meant. To break the siege these late-blooming warmongers insisted Mr.
Clinton must act unflinchingly. They demanded air strikes if necessary. These worthies
insisted Mr. Clinton did not need Britain, France, Russia or the Pentagon. Their
commander-in-chief, Mr. Clinton, must lead the world in decency and righteousness.
This emotional response was prompted by Elie Wiesel, a Nobel peace prize winner,
professional concentration camp survivor and untitled leader of the Holocaust industry,
who pointed out the slaughter was occurring while the United States was doing nothing.
For this country to regain sanity and a notion of decency Susan Sontag and her blinded
friends must be confronted with their grotesque notions of morality. Quick to urge others
to endanger themselves to satisfy her standards of virtue Sontag represents those who deny
that communists killed far more people than Hitler ever did, but believes her secular
sainthood entitles her to moral superiority.
Perhaps the Inquirer could take the lead in damning these pious frauds.
Respectfully,
Richard Earley |
