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The article is fairly long and can be read here.

Excerpts to follow...

[WOSG]

After reading the whole excellent article I was struck by 2 thoughts ...

First, "Saddam really is Hitler". Back in Gulf War I timeframe, i had just assumed calling Saddam 'another hitler' was just a way to call him a bad guy, but after reading this, and noticing the strands of racism inherent in much of pan-Arabist ideology, it is clear that this form of racial nationalism+socialism really is NAZISM FOR ARABS. And the point about how the ideologues of Baath party admired Nazism makes the point.

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. And that makes it more imperative for us TODAY to defeat bad (leftist) ideologies TODAY on the battlefield of ideas, so that our grandchildren dont have to face ugly and evil regimes built on the bogus promises of violent leftists of today.

IDEAS MATTER.