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Those guys were Baathist. They were Arab socialist, anti-colonialist, and anti-imperialists. He slid into a dictatorial regime like a lot of lefty insurgents, but was not a fascist. Like it or not fascism is a product of the totalitarian right not the totalitarian left. Islamo-fascist was great war propaganda but poor political science.
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If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you.
- Louis D. Brandeis
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