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Entry: A Few More Thoughts Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/a_few_more_thoughts1#4069 Post contents: I agree that the "Left" is really not anti-war, but anti-American. Note their lack of interest in Clinton's intervention in the Balkans, for instance. Leftists are different then Liberals of course. Leftists have a twisted sort of neo-Marxist view of America as Imperialist Numero Uno, having never got over their infatuation with the Soviet Union, and their bias toward the Soviet Union interpretation of the Cold War and American History. Howard Zinn's books for instance, are really Soviet era textbooks on American History. Chompsky, the tired old Left-over "New" Leftist also interprets history as American aggression. So of course, they are completely bewildered when paleos assert that America is isolationist and protectionists. One problem that Gottfried doesn't mention is the problem of Jewish domination of the Leftist causes, and the cognitive dissonance that results when ethnic identity conflicts with rigid ideology. Chompsky is the biggest example of this conflict, if you read him, he's critical of Israel, but it's not Jewish ethnocentrism or Zionism that is the problem, it's that Israel is merely manipulated by America, and a mere puppet in American imperialist plans to dominate the Mideast. Of course, most paleos of the conservative or libertarian' stripe would argue that it's the other way around. What with the original blueprint for the Iraq Invasion coming out of the Israeli intelligence. Sent at: 2008 12 02