Have you read "The 14 Characteristics of Fascism"?

Put America through this 14-question pop quiz and see if you pass.

http://www.4forums.com/political/showthread.php?t=2308&page=1

Also, citing Godwin's law doesn't mean anything. We (non-Americans) don't respect this law just like the U.S. doesn't respect the International Criminal Court.

I agree that both sides of the Partisan split are wearing earplugs and probably don't hear a word the other side has to say. This is something that we'll have to work out in the decades ahead if we are ever to have peace on a global scale.

(One great idea would be for the U.S. to sign on to every treaty at its disposal. Start with the Canadian-sponsored ban on landmines. Also, we should ban exports of small arms. Forget weapons of mass destruction; AK-47's and M-16's kill more people and they're easily accessible to Africans embroiled in a civil war or even to militants/terrorists/insurgents from other war-torn nations.)

-JB-

Jeremy,

I checked out the link, and then tried to find out a little about the author (listed there as "political scientist Dr. Lawrence Britt") via Google. The article was published originally in Free Inquiry and attributed to a Laurence (with a "u") W. Britt — no "Dr.," no mention of his being a political scientist. The bio reads "Laurence Britt’s novel, June, 2004, depicts a future America dominated by right-wing extremists." You don't say!

Anyway, that novel and the "14 Characteristics of Fascism" are the only two things I've been able to find under this guy's name. If he does have a doctorate, or a background in political science, or a teaching position (a couple of people reprinting this article call him "Professor Britt"), it is somewhat odd that no one seems to provide any details.

Does it bother anyone that after accusing liberals of having "learned from tyrants and dictators how to inflate your lie into the Big Lie," this author accuses Yglesias of having lost the argument by invoking Godwin's Law?

"Thus, for all that we are afflicted by the endless replays of Yellowcake, the Plame Game, the Bush Lied Lie, the Clarke Testimony, the Woodward Access, the Abu Ghraib Gambit, the WMD Goalpost Moves, we can hope to see an end to it at some point."

Mmmmm...kind of totalitarian thinking isn't it? Ignore any fact to keep your belief in your Holy War intact, embracing any lie and talking about opposition as if they're subversive. This author must be a baby-boomer...calling anyone who disagrees with him a nazi. In the sixties against the right, and with the changing of political fashion now against the left. You people have no spine.

Face it, this war against Iraq was a terrible mistake. Stop blaming liberals for it. The truth never 'demoralizes'. Fighting terrorism is not the same as executing Wolfowitz-memos.