Professor Babbin’s excellent takedown of Hanoi Jane highlights an historical nexus that ought to be explored more: that of the Cold War and the renewed jihad that followed its end.
Islam preceded the Soviet Union by 12-13 centuries in implementing a totalitarian organization of human life. The Nazis, and their temporarily victorious competitors in the Soviet Union, stirred modern industrial method into the soup, with dreadful effect.
The latest phase of global jihad has now picked up this line of satanic R&D, using the West’s technology and Soviet-style methods of subversion (e.g., the case of the EU) against it.
It is a potent brew indeed, and its heady aroma, wafting across the planet, seems to have lured hibernating Useful Idiots like Baghdad Barbarella out of their moldy caves.
And she is a serious Manchurian for President of these United States!
p>The Bill, as it were, has come due. br> — Paul Kotik br> Tel Aviv, Israel
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