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Originally Posted by Minister_of_Information
If you are criticizing a policy choice, then evidently you prefer an alternative course of action. And if you do not, what's the point of the critique in the first place?
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Again, I'm critiquing the historical narrative. The government said X (we oppose communism!) but then in the case of China, did Y (stood by watching as China was overrun).
I believe this is worth discussing along with the potential motivations involved.
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I agree that these things happened, and that there is more to it than is made public, but your apparent implication that the fall of McCarthy turned the halls of government into a safe haven for Soviet infiltrators to run wild and mesmerize senior policy makers, I think that is a vast overstatement of whatever might be remotely possible.
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No, the fall of McCarthy had nothing to do with it. This infiltration and conspiracy was already in motion before McCarthy said a peep, and it didn't just disappear when McCarthy died.
Again, nothing was ever done to flush the infiltration out of our government. McCarthy's failed attempt only served to identify and root out a few people, but the larger infiltration continued, indefinitely.
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And J. Edgar Hoover was on the job anyway.
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Hoover was powerless to do anything significant about what he was up against, and he knew it.
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