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PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, JANUARY 25, 1985
done to its capacity to differentiate friend from foe, a capacity
indispensable to the survival of any species.
To see how that natural function has been impaired, consider the
liberal's treatment of several countries•••• In 1953, South Korea
was in ruin. Today, however, the same South Korea is an economic
dynamo, unrecognizable from three decades ago. Its people enjoy
a measure of material prosperity and personal freedom unknown to
any Asian people prior to 1945, exceeded today only by Japan, an
economic superpower. The country is, quite simply, a modern mir
acle, an enduring tribute to the character of its people, and to
the vision and steadfastness of its patron, the United States.
Does the modern American liberal, in politics and the press, re
joice in this enormous achievement--especially measured along
side the wretched little tyranny communism has produced to the
north? He does not. Half the news columns and network commen
tary done today about South Korea are caustic attacks upon the
government there for its alleged mistreatment of political dissi
dents or its shortcomings on human rights••••
What is it that impels men of Kennedy's mindset, in politics and
press, to search out with diligence and condemn with passion,
failure and flaws in nations like South Korea that wish to be
aligned with the United States--while bending over backward to
give the benefit of the doubt to enemies of everything we are
supposed to believe in?
Measured by living standards, the quality of life, per-capita in
come, freedom of religion, travel, assembly, speech, press, etc.,
blacks in South Africa are far better off than they were 30 years
ago, far better off than blacks in•••neighboring countries••••
Yet, today, Western liberalism is virtuall y clamoring�� dec
Iaration of economic� against South Afr1ca--which wishes des
perately to remain part of the West--while calling, with equal
fervor, for more, much more, aid to [Marxist] Angola [and] Mozam
bique••••
For those who profess to despise us, the liberal seems to possess
an inexhaustible reservoir of patience, understanding, good will.
Upon those who would cast their lot with the United States, how
ever, he imposes the most exacting of standards.
It should be noted that just as Senator Kennedy could not or would not un
derstand the complexities of the country he was visiting and lecturing,
neither did his hosts fully understand where he was "coming from," philo
sophically. He gave a clue when he called for, in one speech, "full and
equal citizenship, not in a span of generations, but in a reasonable span of
years." He further urged his listeners to "take a chance on your common
humanity."
To further explain the Senator's mindset, he is such an impassioned be
liever in the primary idealistic democratic principles of liberty and
equality that any society which professes democratic ideals yet falls short