Let me know if you want in or out.
Links: FR Index of his articles: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=victordavishanson
His website: http://victorhanson.com/ NRO archive: http://www.nationalreview.com/hanson/hanson-archive.asp
Third, while there is generic fascism, its variants naturally weave preexisting threads familiar to a culture at large. Hitler’s brand cribbed together notions of German will, Aryanism, and the cult of the Ubermensch from Hegel, Nietzsche, and Spengler, with ample Nordic folk romance found from Wagner to Tacitus’s Germania. Japanese militarism’s racist creed, fanaticism, and sense of historical destiny were a motley synthesis of Bushido, Zen and Shinto Buddhism, emperor worship, and past samurai legends. Mussolini’s fasces, and the idea of an indomitable Caesarian Duce (or Roman Dux), were a pathetic attempt to resurrect imperial Rome. So too Islamic fascism draws on the Koran, the career of Saladin, and the tracts of Nasserites, Baathists, and Muslim Brotherhood pamphleteers.
If I may suggest
Bolshevism in a Headdress
FrontPageMagazine ^ | 3/21/05 | Mustafa Akyol
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1373886/posts
And (one of the best books I've read on the subject)
Occidentalism: The West in the Eyes of Its Enemies
by Ian Buruma, Avishai Margalit
http://www.amazon.com/Occidentalism-West-Eyes-Its-Enemies/dp/1594200084/sr=1-2/qid=1159188565/ref=sr_1_2/104-1207478-3799909?ie=UTF8&s=books
Hanson NEVER disappoints! This is as clear and wellwritten as ANYTHING i have ever read by him, or anyone else!
Unfortunately he doesn't note that Bush backed down a day or two later from using the term, after heat was applied.
Please add me he's brilliant.
Thanks for the ping.
"It's time we recognized the nature of the conflict. It's total war and we are all involved. Nobody on our side is exempted because of age, gender, or handicap. The Islamofacists have stolen childhood from the world." [FReeper Retief]
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Paleologus
