THE HILL
by Bridget Johnson
1/30/11
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) on Sunday cautioned against the Egyptian protests turning into a deadly crackdown like the 1989 pro-democracy demonstrations in China.
“We cannot afford a Tiananmen Square in Cairo,” McCain said on CNN’s “State of the Union.”
“I think one of the lessons here is that we need to be on the right side of history in these countries,” he said of the unfolding political crisis in not only a U.S. ally but a cultural center of the world.[…]
However we did attempt to afford a Tiananmen Square type disaster in America. And we do have the below as part of our history. This post can be found at Wikipedia:
Kent State shootings
| The Kent State shootings – also known as the May 4 massacre or Kent State massacre – [2][3][4] occurred at Kent State University in the city of Kent, Ohio, and involved the shooting of unarmed college students by members of the Ohio National Guard on Monday, May 4, 1970. The guardsmen fired 67 rounds over a period of 13 seconds, killing four students and wounding nine others, one of whom suffered permanent paralysis.[5]
Some of the students who were shot had been protesting against the American invasion of Cambodia, which President Richard Nixon announced in a television address on April 30. Other students who were shot had been walking nearby or observing the protest from a distance.[6][7] There was a significant national response to the shootings: hundreds of universities, colleges, and high schools closed throughout the United States due to a student strike of four million[8] students, and the event further affected the public opinion – at an already socially contentious time – over the role of the United States in the Vietnam War.[…] |
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And more on Kent State and a request for a congressional inquiry can be found here. Congressman Dennis Kucinich was said to be launching a congressional inquiry into an altercation and apparent pistol fire that occurred about 70 seconds before Ohio National Guardsmen shot students and protestors on May 4, 1970.
But, using neocons as a “role model” takes some getting used to. Being on the right side of history would likely be a new adventure for the neocons. History does not know why the neocons started the Iraq war.
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