The Fanatic Right defines words like democracy, communism and terrorism quite differently than I do. When the Shah, Marcos, Suharto, Pinochet, and other similar tyrants were in power the U.S. described the governments they headed as democracies... and the labels communism, terrorist, or terrorist supporter were slapped on the governments of Sukarno, Allende, Castro, Mugabe, and Hussein. My definitions are based on what I assume those words were intended to mean and not how they have been used or interpreted over time. I think Lincoln's definition of democracy as "a government of the people, by the people and for the...