Hussein's massive ethnic cleansings seem not to touch Western intellectuals though these same intellectuals were very concerned for the Serbian Croats
that were being systematically murdered by Milosevic. I've always wondered how the Left can square their two opposed positions, then I remembered, that kind of dilemma is ignored by the really smart people on the Left. They simply don't acknowledge it as any kind of intellectual dishonesty - which it certainly is. Logic and truth have has no place on the Left.
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