[Restorer]

Second thought, when he described the post-modernist rejection of 'objective truth' a cornerstone of marxism and other leftist ideologies. It struck me that Iraq today is living under the bad ideologies of 1950.

There doesn't seem to be much that is particularly leftist about the Baath ideology. Seems much more fascistic. There is something very patronizing about the way the media ignores Baath ideology. Apparently Nazi ideas are bad when held by Germans, but not by Arabs.

Actually, they have a point. Germans had a quite decent chance of conquering the world. Arabs don't.

[WOSG]

Read Hayek's "Raod to serfdom" and you would understand that national socialism (nazism) and intrenational socialism (communism) are twin ideologies.

I thoroughly reject the Communists' use of the term "Rightist" to refer to fascist ideology. Even the fascist Mussolini was a Socialist originally, who merely adapted socilistic ideals to a nationalist/Roman ideology ... THIS IS THE SAME THAT HITLER DID WITH ARYAN NATIONALISM AND THE BA"ATH WITH ARAB NATIONALISM.

So while I AGREE that Ba'ath ideology is quite fascistic, I place it on the Left with its kin of other Socialistic/Collectivist ideologies.

IF Hitler and the Nazi Party were alive today, I would call them LEFTISTS too. National Socialism is still Socialism. It is what they really were and are.