Shiites and Stereotypes- February 18, 2005 President Jimmy Carter once asked Americans to abandon an "inordinate fear of communism" that "led us to embrace any dictator who joined us in that fear." That was back in 1977, when a standard critique of American Cold War policies was that policymakers held a simplistic, monolithic view of communism. Not all communists were stooges of the Soviet Union, as China and Yugoslavia demonstrated. And not all national liberation movements were led by communists. More often, they were led by...http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/02/18/AR2005040300277.html?nav=r... |