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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It?

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To: richardred who wrote (5006)	9/8/2006 11:02:06 AM
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I was a high school Republican...Always have been a Republican, and never looked back. Mao: godfather of terror damien mcelroy examines the disturbing legacy of China’s Great Helmsman, thirty years on This Saturday marks the 30th anniversary of the day Chairman Mao Tse-Tung drew on his last draft of tea. Since his death, Mao has been established in China's pantheon of demotic leaders turned popular gods. Given China's rise to economic beacon du jour, there is increasing interest in the Great Helmsman's legacy. There is even a business manual based on Mao's Little Red Book. But the most potent of Mao's legacies is not to be found in the business sphere. China's resurgence originated in Mao's demise not his period in power. Instead Mao's important legacy to the West rests in his inspirational guidance to guerrilla movements around the world. Chairman Mao is the godfather of deadly terrorists from al-Qaeda to Hezbollah to the Tamil Tigers. It was Mao who fleshed out the theory thatgreat powers were but "paper tigers" when faced with mass resistance movements. Guerrillas, he advised, must move among the populace as fish swim in the sea. The recent survival of Hezbollah in southern Lebanon was testament to the indestructibility of a movement within a community. China's Communists learned this in the bitter struggle to establish a following under 1930s Japanese occupation. Extremists across the Muslim world hold up Hezbollah as the model to be emulated. Al-Qaeda also knows the benefits of embedding in the local population. Thus Osama bin Laden has moved safely from Waziristan to Karachi even though he is the West's enemy No 1. Meanwhile in Nepal, the revolutionary Communist Party aiming to take over the Himalayan state is overtly Maoist. Beijing officially maintains a policy of non-interference in Nepalese affairs, yet the Maoists are well supplied with Chinese weaponry. The Pentagon calls China the country "most likely" to challenge American military might. Chairman Mao would be delighted. thefirstpost.co.uk

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