[sakic]

Article posted is 100% wrong. It was our fanatical fear of communism that caused us to create Bin Laden and his kind.

[Ditto]

It was our fanatical fear of communism that caused us to create Bin Laden and his kind.

BS. Bin Laden whould be who he is and doing what he is doing if communiusm had never existed. It's a fight that predates Karl Marx by 600 years.

[frodolives]

#22 YES YES YES! McCarthyism brought this on us. Had to overthrow the Evil Empire at ALL costs. Who cares about that goat herder Osama? He's going to be our good buddy. Yup, like Marcos, and our pal in Panama.

[Mark17]

Article posted is 100% wrong. It was our fanatical fear of communism that caused us to create Bin Laden and his kind.

LOL. Whatever you say Joe, whatever you say.

[Anamensis]

I don't think the fear of communism is irrational, though. Let's face it, if a capitalist superpower and a communist superpower are competing in a world market, the communist one will lose: it can't afford to pay its workers as little as the capitalists can, and therefore can't offer goods as cheap unless the entire economy is running at a rather low level. (What's the standard of living in China, for example?) So they are natural enemies.

I'm seeing an attitude that I'm mentally labeling "the assumption of stasis" which suggests that people think that if communism, or socialism, or Islam, or whatever, is simply left alone and not meddled with by proponents of capitalism, or democracy, or whatever, it'll stay self-contained and be a good neighbor, and any negative effects come from the interference in its stasis. But I'm with Frost: Good fences make good neighbors.

[Liberty]

"It was our fanatical fear of communism ......." Fanatical????? Methinks you jest. I would suggest you think about the millions that were killed, starved, and imprisoned in Ukraine, China, and all over the Soviet Union.

[Interesting Times]

Article posted is 100% wrong. It was our fanatical fear of communism that caused us to create Bin Laden and his kind.

We didn't create Bin Laden, your leftist blame-the-victim spin notwithstanding.

Nor was our opposition to communism irrational.

My problem with McCarthy is that his excesses permitted the Left to seize the moral high ground, and to bludgeon conservatives with shrill accusations of "McCarthyism" whenever we opposed them. But the threat McCarthy identified was, and is, quite real.

[deadrock]

Fanatical fear is rightly so. In case you missed it, the world wide org. of Commie INC. wiped out more than 100 million people. Your fear CANNOT be fanatical enough.