Word: leftist
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...Iraq has heightened their differences. In the government's view, Labor's hostility to the war reflects all that is wrong with the leftist world view: excessive faith in the United Nations, failure to grasp the global nature of the terrorist threat, and an unwarranted suspicion of the world's most powerful nation. For Labor, the "rush to war" in Iraq exposed the blind spots in the government's foreign policy: excessive closeness to Washington ("sucking up" is Latham's term), insufficient respect for the U.N., and a wrongheaded readiness to fight other people's wars...
...Vietnam record all the more interesting. Only a year ago, in the midst of Howard Dean’s fifteen minutes of fame, the likelihood that the eventual Democratic presidential nominee would be a decorated soldier seemed remote. Indeed, the spectacle of tens of thousands of passionate leftist Democrats cheering someone’s Vietnam service as “noble” seemed a sight about as likely as Dick Cheney attending a MoveOn.org block party. One is tempted to ask people when the Vietnam War became something to brag about, but that is missing the point. When...
KEPT IN OFFICE. HUGO CHAVEZ, 50, President of Venezuela; by the country's voters through a recall referendum; in Caracas. The leftist leader, hailed as a hero by the nation's poor but denounced as authoritarian by his critics, drew a 59% majority in a vote that was challenged as fraudulent by the opposition but endorsed by former President Jimmy Carter and the Organization of American States, which monitored the election...
...Germany is further along the reform path on which France is now gingerly embarking. After a scorching debate that enlivened leftist opposition to the Social Democratic?Green coalition of Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, the government launched its reform in January. Its controversial centerpiece: a €10 Praxisgebühr, or quarterly fee every patient must pay on the first doctor's visit during that three-month period. The fee was widely attacked by doctors and patients alike as awkward and onerous. But along with costlier fees for unreferred visits to specialists, a larger patient share of drug costs...
...sign of how far the culture war has gone that almost no one condemns both movies. If you're a Fundamentalist red-stater, Gibson is a hero. If you're a leftist blue-stater, Moore is, in the words of the New York Times, "a credit to the Republic." The truth is that both movies are different but equally potent forms of cultural toxin--poisonous to debate, to reason and to civility. And the antidote is in shorter and shorter supply...