Originally posted by Ned
I didn't say that people who oppose democracy are terrorists. I say they are not freedom fighters. If they fight fairly and do not commit terrorists acts, but are fighting for some sort of right wing totalitarian rule (as the Islamo-fascists are) then I would call them fascists.
I think what Hitchens is trying to say is that just because these fascists are fighting Bush does not excuse the left for idolizing them. They after all, are fascists, some of who seek to impose radical Islam as a form of government.
I didn't say that people who oppose democracy are terrorists. I say they are not freedom fighters. If they fight fairly and do not commit terrorists acts, but are fighting for some sort of right wing totalitarian rule (as the Islamo-fascists are) then I would call them fascists.
I think what Hitchens is trying to say is that just because these fascists are fighting Bush does not excuse the left for idolizing them. They after all, are fascists, some of who seek to impose radical Islam as a form of government.
Considering what happened in Falluja to set things off the first time around, saying that anyone who resists your army is a fascist is just deeply wrong. Your army let loose the dogs of war, it's turned the nation into an anarchic warzone. Now every Islam-nut, suicide-bombadier and execution-hobbyist is off to Iraq to make the place their own, anyone can holler about establishing a Global Sharia or banning bent-bananas, it all plays into US hands because they obscure the fact that the Iraqis themselves have a right to resist the illegal occupation of their country.
The US has already proved that the welfare of Iraqis, the establishment of law and order, the value of Iraqi lives and elections open to all significant Iraqi political leanings, is way down the list of Important Things For USG after puppet governments and Iraqi oil-revenues paying US corporations to fix the damage caused by US bombs, and the buy-up of Iraqi oil-refining infrastructure at bargain-basement prices to yet more US corporations.
And I'm pretty sick of hearing anybody who considers your war on Iraq to be illegal, or points out the hypocracy of your willingness to cause civilian deaths next to the claims of your good-intentions described as a 'leftist', it's nice bipolar world view you have other there in the States, nice an simple red or blue world view

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