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Reader comment on item: Why the Left Loves Osama [and Saddam]
Submitted by Carey E. Stronach, Ph.D. (United States), Mar 19, 2003 at 16:48
It seems that "the left" will support anything that is labelled "socialist". Arab "Ba'ath socialism" is as far removed from Norman Thomas as Augusto Pinochet is from Maggie Thatcher. Many of today's leftists latch onto it in a desperate but unfocused attempt to recapture their youths, when America's mistakes in Vietnam gave a veneer of rationality to their Marxist flights of fancy.Sadly, some folks who have chased this "holy grail" all their professional careers can't accept the fact that it has crumpled into garbage and grab onto Saddam Hussein out of desparation, just as they did the Sandinistas back in the 1980s and Fidel Castro (and Che Guevara) before that.
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