I guess I need to make it clear that I at least DO NOT have a preference for Ledeen over Buchanan. They are both political zealots with antidemocratic tendencies. I have followed Ledeen with distaste for many years, ever since I was researching John Singlaub and the World Anti-Communist League and I kept running into Holly Sklar in the same archives and libraries in D.C. researching the U.S. support for the Contras in Nicaragua. It finally dawned on us that we were researching different sectors of the same loose network. We, and a few other researchers, were busy trying to unscramble the puzzle when the Iran-Contra Scandal broke.
Chip Berlet Senior Analyst Political Research Associates http://www.publiceye.org
> -----Original Message-----
> From: C. G. Estabrook [mailto:galliher at alexia.lis.uiuc.edu]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2003 2:03 PM
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Subject: RE: [lbo-talk] Neocons Inspired By Italian Fascists?
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>
> -- as -- I hope everyone realizes -- you pointed out in a
> devastating lead to the recent LBO.
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>
> On Tue, 1 Jul 2003, Doug Henwood wrote:
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> > ... Ledeen drips with lust to throw a crappy little country against
> > the wall now and then.
> >
> >
>
C. G. Estabrook wrote:
>Obviously both should be opposed, but the clear preference shown here
>for Ledeen & Co. over against the Buchananite conservatives probably
>has to do with the former's support for Israel as a militarized client
>of the US, as opposed to the latter's critique of that.
>