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Christian Zionist:
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/printpage/0,5942,20522245,00.html

Howard attacks left intelligentsia

04oct06

PRIME Minister John Howard has launched a scathing attack on Australia's left-wing intelligentsia, questioning its loyalty to the nation over the past decades.


In a speech delivered last night for the 50th anniversary of the conservative magazine Quadrant, Mr Howard said the left had a history of denigrating the nation and was now doing the same with the war in Iraq, describing Islamic terrorism as the new tyranny.

He said Australian universities were still breeding leftists and described pro-communists of decades past as “ideological barrackers for regimes of oppression opposed to Australia and its interests”, Fairfax reports today.

Mr Howard said the left was wrong in its view that the Cold War was an equal struggle between the ideologies of the United States and the Soviet Union.

“It became the height of intellectual sophistication to believe that people in the West were no less oppressed than people under the yoke of communist dictatorship,” Mr Howard said in his speech.

Mr Howard praised Quadrant for its record of countering “stultifying orthodoxies and dangerous utopias that have, at times, gripped the Western intelligentsia”.

genteelgentile:
Could mister Howard be either president of the United States or Israeli Prime Minister or both?  I don't know overall how good of a leader he is, but by making these statements, he gives some hope.

wonderfulgoy:
Sum up the Australian intelligentsia with one word: Germaine Greer.   :o

Scriabin:

--- Quote from: Get thee hence Satan on October 08, 2006, 07:12:50 AM ---Sum up the Australian intelligentsia with one word: Germaine Greer.   :o

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If only Steve Irwin was still with us.  :'(

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