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2007-01-22 Home Front: WoT

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Posted by ryuge 2007-01-22 07:16|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 D'Souza's d'nuts.

Posted by Rob Crawford">Rob Crawford 2007-01-22 07:42|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2007-01-22 07:42|| Front Page Top

#2 It's too bad. D'Souza's book about Gramscian political correctness and speech codes in the American education industry was an important book and still resonates today (witness the Heidi Cullen "make my ideological enemies unpersons" incident).

Unfortunately, he falls into the trap that many conservatives do, and confuses the hot war with radical Islam and its silent majority of supporters within the Islamic world with the cold war against cultural Marxism here at home. TO be sure, there is some confluence of purpose between leftists living in the West and radical Islam in terms of taking out the West, but they are NOT the same enemy and each will require different tactics to defeat.

Posted by no mo uro 2007-01-22 07:51|| 2007-01-22 07:51|| Front Page Top

#3 His book on abortion politics, Party of Death, was also spot-on.

This, on the other hand . . . well, what no mo uro said.

Posted by Mike 2007-01-22 08:19|| 2007-01-22 08:19|| Front Page Top

#4 Indeed, a shame. Sounds like D'Souza lays out the right's version of the "neo-con conspiracy," with similarly spurious, overwrought, and stupid results. The left sucks for a lot of reasons -- but causing 9/11 is not one of them. Islamic supremacists caused 9/11, and conflating or diverting attention from that is never helpful.

Posted by exJAG 2007-01-22 09:02|| 2007-01-22 09:02|| Front Page Top

#5 "there is some confluence of purpose between leftists living in the West and radical Islam in terms of taking out the West"??? THEY'RE ALLIES.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2007-01-22 14:43|| 2007-01-22 14:43|| Front Page Top

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