Stumbled across a link via MSNBC to a post on Huffington: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/stan-goff/commanding-in-chief_b_114069.html
The article got me curious about the author who I began to research.
Stan Goff is a Vietnam era Army veteran with 22 years of service (70-73 and 77-96), who has a Special Forces background, was an enlisted instructor at West Point.
Separating from the Army, he studied Marxism, became a (now ex) Communist Party USA member, associated with the leftist National Popular Party in Haiti, is a 9/11 conspiracy theorist, and is involved with the Freedom Road Socialist Organization (all this from Wiki).
He attributes his 'Left' turn to the time he spent in Latin America (with the Army, presumably)
A simple Google search will provide a lot of information, starting with:
http://www.americanswhotellthetruth.org/pgs/portraits/Stan_Goff.html
If you are curious enough, his own websites give a more than adequate perspective on his politics:
http://www.insurgentamerican.net/
http://home.igc.org/~sherrynstan/
http://www.feralscholar.org/blog/
He is well credentialed, educated, and his pieces are well written. He is the author of several books (Full Spectrum Disorder, Hideous Dream, Sex and War) and some more of his posts can be found on Huffington: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/stan-goff/
I can't say I agree with his politics, or his analysis of, well, pretty much anything. I, coming from a similar background; conservative family, 24 year veteran, find his extremely radical shift to the left to be practically incomprehensible . I can't say in all my years of service I have ever met anyone as far left or as radical as Stan Goff. Having read quite a few of his posts and watched a couple of videos, he makes some good points, many (in my opinion) bad, yet he makes them from a political position I find untenable and somewhat disconcerting, all in all, an enigma.
~Finntann~
About Me
- Finntann
- A retired military (25yrs-USAF) constitutional libertarian, fiscally conservative & socially liberal. The Republicans have lost it and the Libertarians haven't gotten there yet. Republican Liberty Caucus.
1 comment:
Funny how the left alternately spits on all things military or talks of the troops as if they were children, but go man-crush gaga over the one-in-a-million Stan Goffs or Gen Smedly Butlers (ot Lt. John Kerry, for that matter).
I don't think this guy is an enigma. I spent a lot of time in Latin America, and that was the first thing that crossed my mind when you e-mailed me.
My time in Latin America led me to understand socialism and the urge to tip it all over.
If you and your family were being crapped on day and night by powerful elites while they called it democracy and capitalism, you would eventually pick up a rock or a gun and do the Che Guevara.
The danger of being in any one place too long is that you could "go native," and that's probably what happened to Stan. I've seen some ugly things that I unfortunately can never erase, and I'm sure he has seen much more than I have.
Pull a certain type of military duty and you get exposed to the seamy side of things. Fighting for truth, justice and the American way isn't a pristine pursuit.
Great article!
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