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In fact I have made a detailed and lengthy case for including Islamic radicals in a database on the left in my most recent book, Unholy Alliance: Radical Islam and the American Left. (web site) I even included in this book a lengthy portrait, "The Mind of the Left," which traced the continuities in radical thought from the generation of Stalinist intellectuals, like Eric Hobsbawm (web site) (an icon of the academic left) through Professors Noam Chomsky (web site) and Todd Gitlin (web site) who hate each other but also share a common hatred of America (by which I mean "actually existing America" and not some fantasy of an American future shaped by radicals).

It is this common anti-Americanism that makes American radicals allies of radical Islam in their attack on the war to bring freedom to Iraq. Both think of America as the Great Satan (and Israel as the Little Satan) -- the root cause of social evil in the world. It also makes American radicals allies of convenience with Arab fascists like Saddam Hussein. Osama bin Laden described this collaboration in a fatwa issued on al-Jazeera TV just before Tony Blair and George Bush removed Osama's bloody ally in Iraq: "The interests of Muslims and the interests of the socialists coincide in the war against the crusaders." He had in mind the ten million leftists worldwide who went into the streets a month earlier to save Saddam's bacon.

As a not unimportant footnote, my conclusion that the left is currently defined by its anti-American and anti-Israel agendas was recently confirmed (web site) by an academic leftist, Andre Markovits, in an insightful essay, "The European and American Left Since 1945," which appeared in the leftist magazine Dissent. (web site) But radicals like Berube can't be bothered to actually read anything that ruffles their feathers, let alone be concerned about the fact that their entire political focus since 9/11 has been in getting our terrorist enemies off the hook. (Doubters can consult the archives of The Nation, (web site) The Progressive and any number of leftwing sites on the web to confirm this.) Not a single leftwing journal or blogger, for that matter, noticed Unholy Alliance, or addressed its arguments, despite the fact that there is no better known critic of the left than myself or that I have focused millions of words on widely trafficked website to their activities and attitudes. It is only because I have now constructed a website with pictures reflecting the same conclusions they have been roused from their torpors.

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