[lit-ideas] Re: How the West Could Lose

Lawrence Helm wrote:
. . . . Was there a great enthusiastic fanatical increase in devotion to the Communist Party in the period from 1956 to 1991, right before it collapsed? I really don't think so.
Of course those under Soviet control had a quite attractive alternative to communism, which clearly had an appeal: The West from 1956 to 1991 was a shining beacon of freedom, rule of law, and success.
<>Another thing to consider is that the second generation Communists were not as committed as the first generation. We are well into the second generation of Jihadists and their fervor seems on the increase.
Perhaps it's because there is no longer any clear-cut superior alternative, at least in the minds of the "followers?" 


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Lit-Ideas Leftists make light of the Islamofascist threat. There are no crocs in the rivers or alligators in the swamps and such people as Pipes and Helm are alarmists who can't answer the silly obfuscatory quibbles of Leftist avoidance. Well, that isn't true. All the facts point one way: and that is the way that Leftists refuse to look.
The reason I can't even stand to listen to Bush's voice on the radio or TV any more is not because I'm making light of possible threats, it's because his policies have INCREASED these threats over what the might have been, had we stayed the society I grew up in and still love. 


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                                  Lisle, IL, USA

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