> Re: John Laughland, latest issue dated June 2nd of The American
> Conservative edited by Pat Buchanan and Taki, has another piece by John
> Laughland (Laughland and another signer of the petition by the ICDSM to
> Free Slobodan Milosevic, Neil Clark, are regulars in The American
> Conservative, and appear less frequently in The Guardian, The Observer and
> The New Statesman), this one on Serbia and Djindic calls Habermas, "an
> extreme left-wing ideologue."
> Here is Laughland on Hitchens and Julie Birchell.
> http://www.sandersresearch.com/html/ANIL20031002/ANIL20030210.html
> > ...This perhaps explains why such committed Communists as Christopher
> > Hitchens and Julie Burchill have become the New World Order’s most
> > enthusiastic cheerleaders.
Interesting. But Laughland's background and general ideology do not necessarily make him wrong about Lukashenko, who -- while he is not exactly a "benevolent dictator" (is there ever such a thing?) -- is a minor league authoritarian by anyone's standards.