[Thorin]

I don't know how Ms. Falacci could have spent most of the last century fighting "fascism," since fascism died, as a coherent political philosophy, in 1945. It survives only as a cuss word, describing things leftists don't like.

[Max in Utah]

"Totalitarianism" would serve as a better description.

At any rate, she shore don't like them islamics.

Unrepentant, Miss Fallaci calls the downing of the Twin Towers an act of cultural war and says the superior Western civilization must stand up and defeat Islam.

"War you wanted, war you want? Good. As far as I am concerned, war it is and war it will be. Until the last breath," she writes.

[bornacatholic]

That was weird.

In any event, I trust you don't consider her a leftist.

What do you think of her vis a vis the reality Islam, which, after all, is what the article is really about.

[unionblue83]

According to Merriam-Webster, "... often capitalized : a political philosophy, movement, or regime (as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition 2 : a tendency toward or actual exercise of strong autocratic or dictatorial control " Both definitions seem to fit quite well into the Quranic worldview.

[Timmy]

I don't know how Ms. Falacci could have spent most of the last century fighting "fascism," since fascism died, as a coherent political philosophy, in 1945. It survives only as a cuss word, describing things leftists don't like.

I don't know. She interviewed Arafat years ago and exposed him as a thug. I think the PA (in their governing of the Palistinians) certainly qualify as fascists, don't you?