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...behalf of our nation, I salute my predecessor for his half century of service to America, and I thank the millions of men and women whose steadfastness and sacrifice triumphed over Depression, fascism, and Communism...
...Reuther and Hubert Humphrey -- understood that unless they clearly separated themselves from communists and their fellow travelers they risked losing not just their souls but their political viability. Hence Principle 6 of the founding statement of Americans for Democratic Action: "We reject any association with Communists or sympathizers with communism...
...Harvard Square we have our own version of such characters. We probably have all seen the Spartacists, that group of people who spend their time distributing such materials as The Socialist Worker and The Workers' Vanguard, bashing the usual targets--U.S. imperialism, Israel, white males. Communism has recently been the New England Patriots of ideologies, but that doesn't faze these activists. They press on, against all odds...
...weapons, it would be fairly easy to accomplish. The Somali clans do not have trained soldiers, like the Serb militias in Bosnia. Most of those toting guns here are youths, some not so big as the rifles they carry. They are not fighting for any cause, not for communism or Islam, not for freedom or democracy. They appear mainly interested in spoils. When the Marines landed, they fled, and it is unlikely that they would fight if the troops started seizing their weapons...
Karadzic, the Balkan commando-psychiatrist, explains, "This war is a continuation of World War II -- the same families, the same revenge." Everyone agrees about that. After the war, Tito and communism merely suppressed the blood hatreds. Tribal memory and the fierce dynamic of revenge went into a kind of holding pattern for nearly 50 years. With the collapse of communism, all the terrible deeds committed during World War II (and World War I, for that matter) came streaming back, demanding vengeance. The Croats' alliance with Hitler, and the savage enthusiasm of the Croatian ultra- nationalist organization Ustashi in slaughtering Serbs...