In the hopes of encouraging a more civil, and illuminating, discourse, here is another episode of William F. Buckley, Jr.’s “Firing Line”.
Sixty years ago, the question of how America’s foreign policy was primarily about combating Communism. The question of America’s impact on the rights of the people affected by that is certainly a cromulent one, but could such concerns go so far as to become tools of America’s enemies? William F. Buckley, Jr. debated Floyd B. McKissick on just such a concern over civil rights and foreign policy.
Until next Friday.
uckley never meet a communist who he wopuldn’t have a drink with; someone who in his view wasn’t a real threat until he came to face not with a North Korean, a Russian or a Cuban but an enemy he could recognize. One of his own social class, a pretender, a sprt of mirror image leftist. When he debated this slime ball and was insulted the mask of cilivization that Buckley so cultivated so carefully finally came off and Buckley said I’ll smash your face in on public tv. These sort of feelings were usually reserved for prole rightists who didn’t graduate from the ivies. Hence we got the Bushes for decades as well as Buckley defending the Panama Canal treaty.