more on the 'useful idiots', the most succinct term to describe the 'secular' 'progressive' morons of india. this article was written way back in 2002 after 9/11. thanks to shahryar for forwarding it.
they suffer from the kalidasa syndrome (TM) -- my term for those who cut off the branch on which they sit. the good kalidasa was infamous for doing this before he became enlightened and a scholar after the devi blessed him.
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From: Shahryar
Lenin called them "useful idiots," those people living in liberal democracies who by giving moral and material support to a totalitarian ideology in effect were braiding the rope that would hang them. Why people who enjoyed freedom and prosperity worked passionately to destroy both is a fascinating question, one still with us today. Now the useful idiots can be found in the chorus of appeasement, reflexive anti-Americanism, and sentimental idealism trying to inhibit the necessary responses to another freedom-hating ideology, radical Islam.
Sheer ignorance is a tempting explanation for the persistent willingness of the free to attack the foundations of their own freedom and to ignore or rationalize the forces that would destroy them. Totalitarian societies are masters of disinformation, propaganda, and outright lies, the bigger the better. How many generations of starry-eyed leftists made pilgrimages to the old Soviet Union to gawk at any number of Potemkin villages and other cardboard-and-tinsel stage-sets for the socialist paradise?
So too today ignorance of Middle Eastern history and the true nature of Islamic society and values makes it easier for many to misinterpret the motives of Islamic terrorists and thugs like Hussein. Nowhere is this more obvious than in many people's interpretation of the conflict in Israel. All we hear about is a "Palestinian homeland," that simple solution that will bring peace to Israel and end the terrorist slaughter. A brilliant propaganda campaign since 1967 has sold the whole world on this specious explanation for the murder of Israelis.
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Canadians waking up this weekend to some more news about Pakistani involvement in the suspected Toronto terror plot - and also to the Terroristan Train bombings. The Canucks are feeling the heat in Afghanistan. They recently took command of the Kandahar sector where Canadian soldiers are being killed and everyone is pointing the finger eastwards.
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