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Politics : Is Secession Doable? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: tejek who wrote (977)	11/10/2004 12:56:42 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1968

Many liberals and Democrats strongly opposed communism, Truman would probably be a good example but their are many others. These people helped put in place the determination of the US to fight and eventually defeat communism and they should be commended for it. However others on the American left supported communists. Walter Duranty is a great example theweeklystandard.com amazon.com orwelltoday.com Jane Fonda is another although she was hardly the only person on the American left who expressed support for the Vietnamese communists. You also had support for Mao, and those who thought Lenin was great but who unlike Duranty couldn't get themselves to support Stalin. You had more support for lesser communist figures like Castro, Che Guevara, and Noriega. And a lot of people on the left end of the Democratic party blamed the US for the cold war, and opposed not only the Vietnam War. Only a small minority was actually pro-communist, but a bigger group was "anti-anti communist", resisting any attempt to respond to communism in a determined war, many others refused to condemn or strongly oppose those two groups. Also see reason.com