Gen. Alexander Haig, RIP: Great American, War Hero, Friend of Jews, Israel

A brave warrior-diplomat, General Haig’s legacy is that–as Ronald Reagan’s Secretary of State–he rebuilt America’s image around the world, post-Jimmy Carter, into one in which the world not only feared the United States, but respected it. A Four-Star General, Haig didn’t do this by orchestrating Reagan speeches to the Muslim world begging them to like us and using his State Department to promote Islam and bring Muslim students here. No, he was smarter than that and didn’t believe in appeasement. Along with Reagan UN Ambassador Dr. Jeane Kirkpatrick, also now gone, he took the “kick me” sign off America’s back (the same sign that returned ever since Bill Clinton took office). There is a reason there were no Islamic terrorist attacks on U.S. soil during Alexander Haig’s tenure in the Reagan White House. ( In fact, even the terrorist attacks against America overseas–the Hezbollah bombing and mass murder of 300 U.S. Marines and civilians in the barracks and U.S. Embassy in Beirut and torture murders of Navy Diver Robert Dean Stethem, CIA Attache William Buckley, and Col. Rich Higgins–all happened on his successor, George Schultz’s watch, because under Schultz, President Reagan sent Marines to Lebanon to protect the P.L.O from the Israelis, a move Haig opposed.)

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