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Gopher
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 Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 10:24 am Post subject: |
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| ddeubel wrote: |
| I assume he is on your radar screen, even if in the historonic sense...I wish he was on the radar screen of more people, him and the UFW. He should also have been on the list of the top 100 Americans... |
Regionalism. He is huge in California and the Southwest.
Stop being so pessimistic about Americans. |
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Gopher
Joined: 04 Jun 2005
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| Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 12:14 pm Post subject: |
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| huffdaddy wrote: |
| You certainly can't criticize just the left for...this philosophy...The right has made some mighty devilish bedfellows of their own. |
Yes. No question about it. But my point is tightly focused on the left's adoring Hugo Chavez -- this thread's subject matter.
Also, except for Reagan's calling the Contras "freedom fighters," "morally equivalent to America's founding fathers" (and I agree this reflected profound ignorance if not obscenity), I am not aware of people on the right (at least those Realists with whom I identify; I cannot speak of Pat Robertson and those like him because their views have nothing at all to do with my own and indeed, I remain just as puzzled by them as you probably are) romanticizing the virtues of the likes of, for example, Augusto Pinochet.
Pinochet was anticommunist and he was there. Kirkpatrick argued we ought to support him and those like him elsewhere because they favored America and were hostile to Soviet Russia. That is, no one claimed for Pinochet the things the left claims for Chavez the Smiter of the Sinister Empire... |
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