A Radical Feminist Comes Out for Bush
By Phyllis Chesler
FrontPageMagazine.com | January 9, 2004
American feminists, myself included, were horrified by the excesses of the Taliban, but our campaign against them proved ineffective. It took the American military invasion to rid the country--temporarily--of those thugs. However, American progressives, including many feminists, were the first to condemn the American action. Afghanistan has always been a "wild west" of a country. No one has ever colonized or subdued the warring ethnic factions -- or brought freedom to this impoverished and reactionary country.
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http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=11669
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The phrase *radical feminist* is used not only by FrontPage, which might be excused for trying to increase the spike-factor of Chesler's endorsement by claiming that even a radical (ooooh, aaahh) sees the logic of Bush's war on evil, Alan Dershowitz (Harvard's greatest tiny mind) also gives the term a whirl in a book review excerpted at her official site:
http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/index.htm
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Now the word radical calls to mind a certain sort of person; one whose ideas and actions differ, well, radically from whatever norms your society uses to determine insiders and outsiders.
After reading some of Chesler's essays, I can think of a few adjectives to describe the tone of her ideas.
Radical is not one of them.
Since words apparently have no meaning for these folks we could easily replace *radical feminist* with something equally inaccurate.
For example...
Temporal Wormhole Engineer Phylis Chesler Returns From The Future, Comes Out For Bush
or...
Shaolin Temple Abbott and I Ching Manual Thief Phyllis Chesler Battles The White Lotus Clan Using Mantis Style, Comes Out For Bush.
and my favorite...
Run-Of-The-Mill Liberal Apologist For Militarism Uses Feminist Tropes To Explain Essentially Brain-dead Endorsement of Bush.
Oh wait, that one's actually true.
DRM