Good work on your Lefties Don’t Know Iraqis post . I must say you really put some effort and thought into the piece!

Today’s conservatives support and have triggered change while liberals have become reactionary and out-of-touch, "more interested in preserving the past than in discovering the future."

Indeed.

I just finished reading "Unholy Alliance : Radical Islam and the American Left" by David Horowitz. It has been a real puzzle to me why the left has taken the reactionary position – increasingly so, since the Soviet collapse.

I thought that the socialist utopia was totally discredited, particularly after the Soviet archives were opened. If Horowitz is correct, I was completely wrong. Per Horowitz a significant number of the old socialists are still dreaming of their communist utopia. There problem is that globalization (and its US prime mover) are interfering with their program. Thus the socialists ally with forces perceived to be sufficiently anti-American, whether Saddam, the mullahs of Iran, or Al Qaeda.

This is truly bizarre logic – is Horowitz correct?

I just put up a post from my offline archives that I think you will appreciate:
Haim Harari Speech: A View from the Eye of the Storm, Apr 2004. Harari reminds me a bit of Richard Freyman – he certainly penetrates the "accepted wisdom" with alacrity. I wish I could sit down for a conversation with the man.

I’ve previously discussed the inversion of the American political spectrum:
Today’s conservatives support and have triggered change while liberals have become reactionary and out-of-touch, “more interested in preserving the past than in discoverin…

Thanks for the kind words – and thanks very much for the blogroll link.

I’m reading The Hedgehog now – excellent work. Your extra effort with images communicates very well, and adds a bit of fun to the serious topics. I particularly like the posts on Border Security. .

If you’ve not yet read “America the Vulnerable“, I highly recommend it. The absence of focus on the internal security issues is a weakness of the Bush administration – and a great opportunity for leadership. What needs to be done is well understood as a result of an ongoing series of blue-ribbon panels (beginning with Hart/Rudman). More to come on this one…

Steve D.