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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1
Mr Putin, what do you think of your "useful
idiot" supporters in the United States?

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Useful idiots

Thomas Sowell
May 20, 2003

Thomas Sowell

"The term 'useful idiots' has been attributed to Lenin, as a description of those mindless people in the Western democracies who would always find ways to excuse whatever the Soviet Union did. Columnist Mona Charen's new book Useful Idiots shows that such people are still with us.

Long after the Soviet Union's horrors had become too widely known around the world for their sympathizers in the West to be able to get away with whitewashing the USSR, new Communist dictatorships arose to become the new objects of the affections of the Western intelligentsia and of like-minded people in the media and in politics. ..."

http://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2003/05/20/useful_idiots

10 posted on 02/04/2016 8:03:30 PM PST by ETL (Ted Cruz 2016!! -- For a better, safer America)
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To: ETL

Isis lover.


11 posted on 02/04/2016 8:03:58 PM PST by DeathBeforeDishonor1
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To: ETL

Bttt.


20 posted on 02/04/2016 8:12:52 PM PST by Inyo-Mono
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To: ETL

You probably consider Churchill a “useful idiot” for allying with Russia against Hitler.


44 posted on 02/04/2016 8:55:54 PM PST by WilliamIII
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