[leadpenny]

“carrying water for traitors”

Let me guess, “traitors” are those who disagrees with the conduct of the war? What do we have left if Americans can’t speak freely about what they believe? Would it be worth defending?

[wideawake]

Let me guess, “traitors” are those who disagrees with the conduct of the war?

No traitors are, for one example, people who claim that we are at war only because the President "lied us into" it.

Bacevich's argument that Bush actually lied himself into war first, and then only accidentally lied the country into war believing the lies were true, is contemptible and separate from any criticism of the actual conduct of the war.

What do we have left if Americans can’t speak freely about what they believe?

No one is suggested that Bacevich should be prevented from continuing to spew his garbage.

[wideawake]

Correction: “has suggested”

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

There is a book (now available in paperback ):

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Unholy Alliance: Radical Islam and the American Left
(Hardcover)
by David Horowitz

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And reviews:

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Editorial Reviews

Rich Lowry, Editor National Review

David Horowitz is synonymous with pyrotechnics. A historian and polemicist of the first order, he is paid the ultimate compliment --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Davis Hanson, Author, Ripples of Battle

An original look at those who want us to fail in the Middle East, both at home and abroad. The --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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See all Editorial Reviews

Fascinating Analysis of Leftist Goals, August 13, 2006

Reviewer: N. Sincerity - See all my reviews

A former 1960s radical, Horowitz is well-acquainted with the Leftist mindset. In this book, he strives to explain the modern alliance between left wing progressivists and radical Islamofascists. He argues that this alliance is based on a common desire to destroy Western capitalism. Leftist sympathy with Islamofascist ideas makes no sense from an intellectual point of view, given that countries ruled by radical Islamists are among the most racist, sexist, theocratic states in the world today. However, Leftists have recognized that they can benefit politically from destructive terrorist attacks on the Western world. A West under attack can be made to turn on its leaders in fear and desperation (as they did in Spain after the Madrid train bombings). Only once people reject current government structures can the Left execute its anti-capitalist revolution and build a new reality that mirrors the Leftist view of utopia.

The complete and utter idealogical hypocrisy of the Islamofascist-Leftist alliance is distressing, but as Horowitz reminds us,

Leftists radicals truly believe the ends justify the means.

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[3niner]

What do we have left if Americans can’t speak freely about what they believe?

Good Americans know when it is appropriate to "speak freely", and when to be more circumspect.

My own grandfather was monitored by the FBI, all through WWII. (Mostly done by neighbors on behalf of the FBI.) This was because he spoke freely (favorably) about Hitler, during the 1930s. He kept his stupid yap shut during the war, though.