Why Zarqawi and Katrina Van Den Heuvel?

Front Page Mag ^ | Feb 25, 2005 | David Horowitz

[Former Dodger]

Ok, it's a possibility, but it is like Afghanistan in many ways: very poor, uneducated and not very technological.

Pakistan going "over" would be a much bigger worry, for obvious reasons, however, both also have the "non-arab" status that would make it difficult to attaract the "real" true believers.

Bengladesh does bear watching, though.

[DugwayDuke]

"FD, in all due respect, I find fascism also listed in many places as a right-wing movement (see below)...How is it that it is described as both?"

Fascism was justified as a reponse to communism. All across Europe, many expected communism to prevail due to the economic conditions during the great depression. Fascism was to be the 'third-way' that would combine the best of capitalism and communism and prevent the expansion of communism. Fascism was a counter to communism. If something is a counter to some thing on the left, it must be on the right. Therefore, fascism in on the right.

However, fascism and Nazism were essentially socialistic in their nature. Hayeck wrote an excellent book during WWII, The Road to Serfdom, that compares and contrasts fascism, Nazism, and Communism concluding that they are just variants of each other. Therefore, fascism in on the left.

[DugwayDuke]

"Both Islamicists and leftists have a fantastic vision of the utopian future when the beast is slain. For the Islamicists like Zarqawi this redemptive future is the garden of Allah and 72 virgins; for leftists like Katrina Van Den Heuvel it is "social justice." For both, the path to an earthly paradise is through the destruction of the Great Satan -- which is us."

I'd like to point out that the left sees dictators like Sadaam as dispensing 'social justice'. How many articles have you heard extolling the fact that, under Sadaam, Iraqis had free health care and free education? Or, under Castro, the Cubans have free health care and free education?

I've concluded that the left believes that the only way 'social justice' can be achieved is through a totalliatarian dictator, ie, Stalin, Sadaam, etc., and that they are willing to live under such a dictator in order to achieve 'social justice'. Freedom is far less important than egalitarianism.

[Gritty]

BTTT

[Straight Vermonter]

Actually the non-Arab staus of Somalia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bangladesh, or Indonesia is what makes these places MORE desirable. Not for the AQ cannon fodder but for the folks who pay the bills. These rich guys want maniacs like Ghaliani, Ramzi Youssef and Khalid sheik Mohammed as far from the Arab world as possible.

[mrsmith]

"Horowitz isn't very convincing "

He doesn't even make an effort to be.

A casual anti-Muslim bigotry started poisoning the conservative internet about last summer.

It pleases a lot of our factions like the "anti-white man" bigotry of the liberals did theirs in the Sixties.

I guess we'll get a short-term political advantage out of it too, before the intellectual laziness and dishonesty do us in.

I fear it is an unexpected blowback from the Iraq War- Bush having to lean too hard on the WOT issue to justify it during the election- though it may turn out to be just a temporary random phase we're going through.

[USF]

Thanks for all the pings Jan. ;o)

[SunkenCiv]

one last Blast from the Past for today. Happy New Year.