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The willingness to kill is proof of one's purity.

Are we sure the Clintons did not study with this bunch? The subversion of the language is the same.

The Sorbonne in Paris has always been a hotbox of Communist fervor. The author ommited, or forgot, that Ho Chi Mihn was a student there also. Perhaps it was Uncle Ho's success against the "Great Satan" which inspired the Muslims.

This is a fine article for intellectuals but to make it simpler for folks like me, our present trouble started not in the sixties but immediately after WWII when Joe Stalin took the opportunity to seize Eastern Europe and to continue his expansionist policies. Remember, all tyrannies must control everything, meaning eventually the world, in order to succeed. When the UN created Israel in 1948, the Communists immediately opposed this and fanned the flames of the Arab-Israeli animosity of thousands of years into what we have today. They wanted to control that oil-rich area and so did we. Unfortunaely for all of us, the monster they created has grown up and turned on the rest of the world, them included. The Soviets started the process of blaming us for everything and even though the Soviets have done them only harm and we have tried to help them, those who wish to control still use us as the whipping boy.

Whereas the old international was made up of the economically oppressed, the new one would be a grab bag of the culturally alienated, "the dispossessed and the marginalized": students, feminists, environmentalists, gays, aboriginals, all uniting to combat American-led globalization. Islamic fundamentalists were obvious candidates for inclusion......
"Empire" is currently flavor of the month among American postmodernists. It is almost eerily appropriate that the book should be the joint production of an actual terrorist, currently in jail, and a professor of literature at Duke, the university that led postmodernism's conquest of American academia. In professorial hands, postmodernism is reduced to a parlor game in which we "deconstruct" great works of the past and impose our own meaning on them without regard for the authors' intentions or the truth or falsity of our interpretations. This has damaged liberal education in America. ..... the terrorists don't limit themselves to deconstructing texts. They want to deconstruct the West, through acts like those we witnessed on September 11.

What the terrorists have in common with our armchair nihilists is a belief in the primacy of the radical will, unrestrained by traditional moral teachings such as the requirements of prudence, fairness, and reason.

Yet another example of the similarity to our American liberal Democrats. How much more do we need to stop being politically correct and call them what they are - people who seek the overthrow of our form of government and the destruction of this Republic?

"I've said before that the animating spirit behind September 11th owes more to "Das Kapital" than it does the "Koran". I reccomend Alan Bloom's "The Closing of the American Mind" for an understanding of the new left as springing from an eerie ideological mix of Marx and Nietsche. Culture has replaced economics as the focus, with Herbert Marcuse's "Eros and Civilization" as a textbook.

This is exactly right. People are wasting their breath trying to assert we don't hate Muslims. This isn't about Islam at all, it's about rich kids getting off on murder and explosions with no threat to self. The fascination with violence by privelidged kids is amazingly similar across the board. The Columbine killers and Osama Bin Laden and ilk make videos of themselves, take pics of themselves with heavy weapons, kill unsuspecting people and then often themselves.Heidiggers' philosophical position wasn't a philosophical position, it is merely philoso-babble covering up an emotional position ---- the thrill of easy violence. Fanon and many others were from priveidged families and got off on violence in a big way. Then comes the verbal puke trying to make is sound 'okay'. With moronic gabble about 'purity'. And Heidigger is taught seriously in academe by nutty professors who also think killing people is 'okay' as long as they are out of the range of fire. Terrific article.