Chickens and 'leftists"

Submitted by John Coffin (United States), Mar 26, 2008 at 22:28

Mar. 15, 2008 update: A reader points out that the "chickens came home to roost" phrase has been celebrated by leftists in the title of books, including ones by Harry Elmer Barnes (1973) and Ward Churchill (2003).

'A Reader' seems unaware that Harry Elmer Barnes was a pro-German revisionist who sought to exonerate the Germans from any fault for WWI, and after WWII became one of the pioneers of Holocaust Denial.

As long as we use current events as a stick to beat our antique drums of 'Right' and 'Left' --in the manner, say, of Messrs Barnes and Churchill--just so long will we lack the intellectual mettle to face the real threats at loose in the world today.

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