Bill Bennett and AVOT: Intergenerational Thieves

By now, most of us on the Old Right are painfully aware of the project spearheaded by Bill Bennett, the organization called Americans for Victory over Terrorism (AVOT). According to Jim Lobe's AlterNet piece, "War on Dissent Widens," one of the goals of AVOT is to propagandize college campuses in order to prevent a public backlash against the War on Terror similar to the one that doomed the Vietnam War. Bennett's choice of the Vietnam War as his point of departure reveals much about his statist commitments, and exposes him as an intellectual accessory to the crime that the War … Continue reading Bill Bennett and AVOT: Intergenerational Thieves