> I suspect US leftists have to bend over backwards to prove their
> anti-imperialist credentials and a very large number of them go to
> absurd lengths to do it.
And it leads us into folly more often than we care to consider, as well encouraging many domestically who would otherwise agree with us to say, "Those people--they're nuts!"
We (the American left) are so determined not to ever have power--why do the right-wingers even bother with us? We're harmless.
All the best,
John A