Posted on 10/26/2005 10:47:20 AM PDT by I8NY
Flirting with Fascism
Neocon theorist Michael Ledeen draws more from Italian fascism than from the American Right.
By John Laughland
On the antiwar Right, it has been customary to attack the warmongering neoconservative clique for its Trotskyite origins. Certainly, the founding father of neoconservatism, Irving Kristol, wrote in 1983 that he was proud to have been a member of the Fourth International in 1940. Other future leading lights of the neocon movement were also initially Trotskyites, like James Burnham and Max Kampelmanthe latter a conscientious objector during the war against Hitler, a status that Evron Kirkpatrick, husband of Jeane, used his influence to obtain for him. But there is at least one neoconservative commentator whose personal political odyssey began with a fascination not with Trotskyism, but instead with another famous political movement that grew up in the early decades of the 20th century: fascism. I refer to Michael Ledeen, leading neocon theoretician, expert on Machiavelli, holder of the Freedom Chair at the American Enterprise Institute, regular columnist for National Reviewand the principal cheerleader today for an extension of the war on terror to include regime change in Iran.
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u R a nut.
Mr. Cannistraro, I presume? 1984 indeed. Bite me.
If there's anyone who is a clerical fascist, it is Pat Buchanan and the Ultramontanists at Chronicles who seem to be pissed off that White Catholic Southerner Protectionists do not rule the world.
And you should also notice that you and Cannistraro have misspelled the acronym for the Italian Military Intelligence Service. It's SISMI not SISME. A good Italian like Cannistraro should at least know that!
Michael Ledeen
What...no reply?
Geez, they can't seem to get it straight, can they?
syme alert
Sorry, out engaging in my non-cyberlife. Ledeen's response is very much on point and quite categorical. Let's let him off the hook on the Niger memo. I still can't square his doctrine of world revolution (Fascist or otherwise) with my idea of conservatism.
LOL
"If there's anyone who is a clerical fascist, it is Pat Buchanan and the Ultramontanists at Chronicles who seem to be pissed off that White Catholic Southerner Protectionists do not rule the world."
Well, there's a good bit of truth in that.
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