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    From Jim Wilkins@muratlanne@gmail.com to rec.aviation.military,soc.history.war.misc,alt.law-enforcement,or.politics,seattle.politics on Thu Jun 26 13:05:40 2025
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    "a425couple" wrote in message news:cwe7Q.65039$9qCb.38472@fx15.iad...

    https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2025/06/iran-propaganda-palestine/683322/
    The pro-Palestine messaging ignores the fact that a nuclear-armed Iran
    would be far more belligerent and dangerous than the regime already has
    been for the past three decades.

    https://www.carolinajournal.com/opinion/the-ubiquity-of-useful-idiots/ "Whatever the provenance, useful idiot is now short speak for anyone
    oblivious to the harmful effects of a given cause, political or otherwise. Useful idiots are not what one would call stupid; they are highly
    intelligent and aware of the circumstances. The problem appears to be that they attribute to a given cause its positive effects only while turning a blind eye to its derogatory ones."

    A good example is the foreign literary intellectual's praise for Stalin
    during his brutal purges, which would have devoured them had they been Russians. https://fee.org/articles/george-bernard-shaw-was-so-enamored-with-socialism-he-advocated-genocide-to-advance-it/

    My research suggests Lenin verbally used the Greek word "idiot" instead of
    the Russian "durak" which is a useless fool. The Greek term originally meant one who doesn't participate in or even rejects their own government and society, a loner or hermit to a sociopath.

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