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[bucheon bum]

Only a President like Dubya could make me agree with a person such as Patrick Buchanan. PB and I see eye-to-eye on a lot of foreign policy issues these days. I especially liked his most recent column:

Islamo-facism?

[Kuros]

Is Bush really grouping all Muslims into the group of Islamofascists?

Islamofascists (also known as Islamists) have their Christian counterparts, known as Christianists. Both Christianists and Islamofascists/Islamists seek to extol their faith, and their version of their faith, on a political level, usually by advocating totalitarian regimes based on their faith, and often doing so with a zeal that uses extreme methods.

Islamofascist is a wonderful way to group together Al Qaeda and Iran, because it elicits a commonality in their essential goals that Muslim extremist does not. If anything, Al Qaeda is more Islamofascist than Iran due to Zawahiri's direct connections and training with the Islamic Brotherhood, which was in turn trained by the Nazis. The regime of Iran would be a softer Islamofascist incarnation, although they beg for the label when they talk about wiping out Israel and execute teenagers for gay sex.

Bush's Manichean worldview and rhetoric is another problem, but identifying Islamofascism as a problem we face (Islamist, political authoritarian Islam, etc) is correct.

[otis]

I guess the big difference is that the Christians aren't blowing you up at the airport.

[On the other hand]

[Kuros]

[DCJames]

[Milwaukiedave]

I have read one of Buchanan's books, I think it was called, "Where the Right Went Wrong"

It's a good read and talks quite abit about the Republican party has been hijacked by the neocons. I highly recommend it even to someone who is liberal.

Yes, some of the things Buchanan says are pretty looney, but he makes some good points too.

[Summer Wine]