At 10:25 PM 9/10/00 -0700, you wrote:
>Any Labor government--hell, *any* democratic government or *any*
>left-of-center non-democratic government--would have been eager to join
>the war against Hitler. Peron was not--hence the classification of his
>regime as "fascist South American overgrowth" seems not unfair...
so you believe that Eldridge Cleaver's old dictum that "if you're not part
of the solution, you're part of the problem"? So the fact that the US was
"neutral" against the Spanish fascists during the Civil War there indicates
that the US was semi-fascist?
This fits with the consistent trend of US foreign policy since then, i.e.,
the willingness to ally with fascists and to impose fascist governments (as
in Chile) when democracy didn't serve US interests.
That said, I don't think that the over-used word "fascist" really fits the
US government. Rather, the US gov't is pro-crypto-fascist (as Gore called
Bill).
[That's Vidal and Buckley, not Al and Clinton.]
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
