American Betrayal Quotes

“At almost every challenge, the bastions of tradition run up a white flag. It's almost as if they've been neutralized, neutered even, as though there were nothing left on the inside. Could it be the emptiness, reluctance to stand on and defend the tradition and its institutions, a shaky hold on principle, a failure to draw conclusions and make judgments, are the real legacy of the 'American Century'? If so, who really won all of those wars?”
― Diana West, American Betrayal: The Secret Assault on Our Nation's Character

“Despite Soviet 'defeat' in 1991, the ideas associated with Communism remain shockingly reputable throughout what we still know as the Free World.”
― Diana West, American Betrayal: The Secret Assault on Our Nation's Character

“In answer to the 64,000-ruble question—“What went wrong?”—Bukovsky cites the failure to render judgment on the Soviet system on its dissolution: “We were given a chance to win in 1991. To do it we needed a Nuremberg trial, but not a trial of people. In a country like the Soviet Union, if you tried to find all the guilty, you would end up with 19 million people, and who needs another Gulag? This isn’t about punishing individuals. It’s about judging the system.”
― Diana West, American Betrayal: The Secret Assault on Our Nation’s Character

“Here at last you witness the real Barack Obama. The sound you hear in the background is the cracking of Obama’s nimbus of benevolent moderation. This is not ‘change we can believe in.’ It is left-wing radicalism aimed at the foundations of the American system of government.”
― Diana West, American Betrayal: The Secret Assault on Our Nation’s Character