Where is Ambon?
Reply Andrew Tyndall says: August 16, 2006 at 11:12 am Feinman & Jersy Exile– I could not agree more about the deplorable, and lazy, spread of the term “fascist.” Last week, President Bush used the term both to describe Hezbollah and the 24 suspects arrested in England for the alleged liquid bomb plot. What either group had to do with the political traditions of Benito Mussolini or Francisco Franco or even Juan Peron is beyond me. Perhaps Bush thought Sheikh Nasrallah was planning to make the trains run on time! If anything, the tactics of the alleged jetliner bomb cell look more like C19th anarchists or a C20th-style Baader-Meinhof gang than a bunch of proto-Brown Shirts. As for Hezbollah, its combination of an armed militia plus social welfare agency plus political party, seems no different from any number of national resistance organizations, like Kurdistan’s peshmerga or Sri Lanka’s Tamil Tigers or the Palestine Liberation Organization. Hezbollah is different in that it is explicit
