[lbo-talk] Anti-"Appeasement" Rhetoric: From Communism to a Caliphate (was Pat Buchanan on Ahmadinejad)

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Thu Sep 27 09:04:59 PDT 2007


On Sep 27, 2007, at 10:52 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:


> The argument that Buchanan used in 1977 against "appeasement" of
> Communists is precisely the type of argument that many -- on the Left,
> Right, and Center! -- use today against "appeasement" of Iran in
> particular and political Islam in general: don't be fooled by the
> rhetoric of anti-imperialism advanced by Islamists, pro-Islamists,
> "Western-haters" -- Islamists are pursuing an imperialism of their
> own, seeking to establish a Caliphate, "a global enterprise, which has
> as its objective the collapse of the West."

Who on the cap-L Left is making such an argument?

Your answers to this question have previously been somewhere between weak and ludicrous. Maybe you can do better this time.

Doug



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