In politics men who make speeches do not go out of their way to explain how differently they would speak if the enemies they had were larger in size or different in character. On the contrary whatever enemies they fight they paint in satanic terms, so that a problem sufficiently difficult to begin with in a liberal society becomes complicated further by the inevitable perspectives of political battle.
- Louis Hartz The Liberal Tradition in American Politics
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What the modern left shares with Islamic radicals is a negative vision: America as the Great Satan, the root of all evil. In the eyes of the Left, America is the guardian of private property everywhere – “globalization” and this has been regarded by leftists as the root of all evil since Rousseau identified it as such. Both Islamicists and leftists have a fantastic vision of the utopian future when the beast is slain. For the Islamicists like Zarqawi this redemptive future is the garden of Allah and 72 virgins; for leftists like Katrina Van Den Heuvel it is "social justice." For both, the path to an earthly paradise is through the destruction of the Great Satan - which is us.
- David Horowitz, "Why Zarqawi and Katrina Van Den Heuvel?"
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