HAS TRUMP BEGUN TO DESTROY OR DEFEND AMERICA? By Jiri and Leni Friedman Valenta

Unafraid, Bi-partisan, Uphold U.S. and Freedom

History Repeats Itself

“...Before we hopefully return Winston Churchill´s bust back to the Oval Office in 2016…” was how my wife, Leni, and I began our July 4, 2015, “Our Open Letter to Donald Trump.” Then, we surely belonged to a very tiny minority of observers who believed Trump had a prayer of becoming our president. But it happened, and Churchill’s bust, removed by Barack Obama, is back in the Oval Office. Moreover, Martin Luther King’s has not been removed, despite fallacious rumors to the contrary spread by the anti-Trump brigade.

Our airports are now flooded with anti-Trump demonstrators in the wake of his temporary ban on visas for citizens from states that are “hotbeds of terrorism.” Here it is essential to recall past history. To win the fight against Fascism and Communism, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Ronald Reagan had to first battle domestic opposition. Long before Pearl Harbor, FDR was besieged by the conservative wing of the GOP — then the “opposition party,” as Trump today calls the press. “The Statue of Liberty is weeping,” they cried, reviling him as a fear monger, posturer, dictator and destroyer of the American image.

Yet even before any declarations of war, FDR risked impeachment by ordering the US Navy to engage in anti-sub warfare (ASW) against German subs. He also initiated anti-Nazi immigration laws to prevent terrorist attacks and propaganda from coming to America.

Among the three “furies” of the then “opposition party” were newspaper moguls Robert R. McCormick and two Pattersons — Joe Albright’s grandfather and his sister, Cissy. The Pattersons owned America’s then most widely read newspaper, the New York Daily News.

By Joe Albright I refer to the ex-husband of our past Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright. Her father, the late professor Josef [Jozka] Korbel, a staunch Churchill supporter, was my mentor and friend from 1973 until his death in 1977. I bring this up because Madeleine Albright is one of the key inciters of the present airport crowd, which has also fed off the network of the post-inauguration march for women’s rights.

“I was raised Catholic, became Episcopalian and found out later my family was Jewish,” she proclaimed. “I stand ready to register as Muslim in solidarity.” Thus, on the eve of January 27, the day commemorating the Red Army’s liberation of Auschwitz, where some of both her and my relatives died, she declared her opposition to Trump’s temporary Muslim ban.

Aside from the fact that she is ready to change religions at the drop of an opportunity, Madeleine knew about her Jewish heritage long before 1997, when she supposedly “discovered” it with the help of her biographer, Michael Dobbs. Back in 1974, Jozka told me that Madeline knew she was Jewish.

Going back to FDR: After Pearl Harbor, he suspended naturalization proceedings for Axis country immigrants and required those present to register. Many have rightfully criticized his internment of Japanese Americans, yet certainly most of his measures were necessary. Following 9/11 and continued attacks on our homeland, Trump’s attempts to protect us are mild by comparison. The examples furnished by the Middle East immigration to Europe, as Trump has repeatedly said, demonstrate that the need for self-preservation must inevitably override some of our sacred ideals.

When political party roles reversed during the Cold War, Reagan, too was first labeled a warmonger and fear monger and vilified by an anti-Reagan brigade — this time it was the Democrats and segments of the U.S. press.

Now, yet another Democrat-turned Republican, Trump — facing Islamo-fascism, a new and deadly threat to America — is also staring down the descendants of the anti-FDR and anti-Reagan crowds.

In the 19th century, the Prussian statesman Otto Von Bismarck was known to have remarked, “There is a special Providence that protects drunkards, fools, children, idiots and the United States of America.” We do not consider Americans fools, but many of them have been again fooled, as in 1941 and 9/11. Yet, Providence has thus far given us Trump, and we hope for continued protection.

For the opposing article by Jim Arkadis see: http://www.mishpacha.com/Browse/Article/7193/Pro--Con-Immigration-Ban.

Dr. Jiri Valenta is a Czech-Jewish author and editor, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. His wife, Leni Friedman Valenta is a graduate of Brandeis University and Yale. Their Institute of Post-Communist Studies and Terrorism can be reached at jvlv.net. They are working on Jiri’s memoir, “Are You Starting a Revolution Here?”