May 28, 2017

Ron Klein, Esq.

Holland & Knight

515 E Las  Olas Blvd

Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33301

Mr. Klein,

Of course, Reagan, the Great Reagan, was right when he said that “it’s not that modern American Liberals are stupid, it’s just that there’s so much that they don’t know”.

One of the hallmarks of your modern American Liberalism is the “sanctuary zone” that eclectic indignation gives you. It is the cognitive dissonance – 2 ideas, sometimes contradictory, simultaneously held, held fiercely – without which you would surely go bonkers.

In your mini Op-Ed in today’s Sun Sentinel you carp about the arms sale to Saudi Arabia.

Perhaps there are no permanent enemies but only permanent interests. Thus, when Uncle Joe Stalin thought it was in his best interest to make a deal with Hitler, the 1930’s version of modern American Liberals couldn’t wait to snuggle up to old Adolph. Was it he or his pal Mussolini, the first fascist leader who was deeply beloved of the rabid New Deal fans, to get the trains to run on time? I mention trains because despite public transit being the goal of all Broward Democrats ridership was off 10% last year. I’m sure you take the bus to work. You do, don’t you? Anything that helps undrown the polar bears is good, right?

When the hated Nixon went to China even the Democrats applauded it. The fact that Mao had killed ten times as many people as Hitler killed Jews was conveniently sent down the memory hole. The China rapprochement was a counter-balance to what used to be called Soviet hegemony. Jimmy Carter, the undisputed king of the FUBARed 2 car funeral, put that one in the crapper, didn’t he?

In 1982 I was driving North on IS5 in Washington state past the Boeing runway. I counted 4 AWACS jets on the tarmac getting ready to be flown to Saudi Arabia. Those planes were built in America by Americans. That was not quite a $2,000,000,000 transaction. The President sealed a $105,000,000,000 plane deal when he was in Riyadh.

Should he have killed the deal?

The common enemy is Iran, remember?

What’s wrong with sticking a finger in their eye, particularly with someone else paying for it?

One of the highlights, one of the serendipitous things about the Marshall plan, was that more than 90% of the money given to Europe was spent in this country. You can look it up.

I forget.

 Did you oppose the Iran nuclear plan, the one that begins with “Death to America and kill all the Jews”? That was the deal where this country sent Iran $150,000,000,000, most of which was in cash. Nobel Prize winner Rudyard Kipling called that “paying the Dane-Geld”. History tells us that it never works out. Ask the ghost of Neville Chamberlain.

Let me backtrack the Reagan quote.

You are dumb.

Kevin Smith