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Monday, January 23, 2006 12:00 AM

America's unlikely defender

French provocateur Bernard-Henri Levy denounces anti-Americanism and defends the idealism of the neocons.
By Oliver Broudy

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  • Monday, January 23, 2006 09:35 AM

    American Imperialism failed?

    We spent forty years failing in Latin America? Hmmm, I must have missed that stretch of communist republics from Chiapas to Tierra del Fuego. We failed in Vietnam, yes, but we succeeded in Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, etc. The cost of victory was so great for the locals that revolution failed to spread beyond Indochina. What a great defeat for the U.S.

    This intellectual isn't really all that intellectual.

    —chegitz guevara

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