Sunday Dec 30, 2007
Posted by Martin Kramer
In September of last year, Pat Buchanan, founder of the weekly magazine The American Conservative, published an article on its pages entitled "Fascists Under the Bed." In that piece, Buchanan attacked President Bush for his assertion that we are "at war with Islamic fascism." As a prelude, Buchanan made a general critique of the reckless way analogies to fascism have been deployed in American politics. Buchanan: Orwell said when someone calls Smith a fascist, what he means is, "I hate Smith." By calling Smith a fascist, you force Smith to deny he's a sympathizer of Hitler and Mussolini...Since the 1930s, "fascist" has been a term of hate and abuse used by the Left against the Right, as in the Harry Truman campaign. In 1964, Martin Luther King Jr. claimed to see in the Goldwater campaign "dangerous signs of Hitlerism." Twin the words, "Reagan, fascism" in Google and 1,800,000 references pop up.
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Donulvi Dolam - Australia: South America was once full of so called Freedom Fighters (called terrorists by some and comunists by others) This went on until a smart guy somewhere realised that it was the USA who was behind everything they did, planned or thought of, so they changed tactics and went legal. Today the Tupamaros are a political party in Uruguay (in power) also in Argentina, Chile, Bolivia, Venezuela etc. Quite frankly sir Terrorism doesn't work exept for those who keep promoting it or otherwise keep it alive by talking about it constantly. A terrorist is neither a moderate nor a radical, he is a fool
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