I'm just curious why you would believe ANYthing William S. Lind says. His middle name seems to be "HATE".

From Sourcewatch:

William S. Lind is Director of the Center for Cultural Conservatism at the Free Congress Foundation, a conservative Washington think tank. Lind served as assistant for military affairs to U.S. Senator Gary Hart. Lind writes and lectures internationally on military theory and doctrine.

According to Stan Goff, in 1989, conservative culture warrior William S. Lind worked with a team of men to dress up a set of perfectly obvious military realities as a new theory, and named it Fourth Generation Warfare (4GW). [1] http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=William_S._Lind

From The Southern Poverty Law Center:

Mainstreaming Hate A key ally of Christian right heavyweight Paul Weyrich addresses a major Holocaust denial conference

“[…] In 1995, a "futuristic fantasy" by Lind was published in The Washington Post just 11 days after the Oklahoma City bombing. It described the breakdown of the United States, a land that had developed "the stench of a Third World country," into racial mini-states — a salutary result, in the narrator's judgment, that enabled a return to older "Victorian" values in now all-white New England. Lind also wrote of teaching kids in this brave new world "with Mr. McGuffy's readers" — a reference to school books used in the 19th century that are chock-full of anti-Semitic stereotypes. […] http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=40”

From The Daily Howler:

HATE THE TEACHERS WELL! The WashTimes slandered the NEA. Your pundits, bought off, just don’t care

MONDAY, AUGUST 26, 2002

But let’s stop playing—William Lind is a rank hate-peddler. But because they’re out on the field of battle, haters like Lind are now driving our discourse. SHIELDS and GERGEN have stronger reps. But have you heard them speak this week? Or are they simply too bought-off to care? http://www.dailyhowler.com/dh082602.shtml

March 10, 2002

http://select.nytimes.com/search/restricted/article?res=F30910FA3D540C738DDDAA0894DA404482

The Fighting Next Time, By BILL KELLER

The original military reformers have dispersed, too -- sometimes to unexpectedly far corners of the political landscape. Take William Lind, an author of that prescient paper on fourth-generation warfare. In the ensuing years Lind has become a key figure at the Free Congress Foundation, a hard-right policy center. Earlier this year, when Marine Corps Gazette invited him to revisit the notion of fourth-generation warfare in light of Sept. 11, Lind proposed a four-step response to terror that suggested he had moved beyond the tedious business of reforming military procurement. His first recommendation was this: ''Within 48 hours, we should have wiped Taliban-held Afghanistan off the map, using nuclear weapons.''

I also think that reading the person's own words would be of more benefit than reading the smear jobs of his detractors.

Yeah. That’s why you highlighted the following about Hillary Clinton [as reported by Lind], evidently just taking his words as fair “reporting”:

Hillary demanded, and reportedly got, a commitment to the opium dream of a "secular, democratic, peaceful" Afghanistan.

Can you prove what she really did/said? Why is his “smear job” OK?

To paraphrase you:

Would you mind posting a link to some real information about Clinton's actions in this case or is one man's say-so all that you need to make up your mind?

As an aside; can you quote Lind and thereby show "hate" speech? You may be able to do so; I only read his posts on war and conflict around the world.

I didn’t accuse him of “hate speech”. I accused him of hate and [indirectly] of lying. As I showed, The Southern Poverty Law Center wrote an article about a speech he gave to a “major Holocaust denial conference” which they entitled: “Mainstreaming Hate”.

I would be interested in a post that shows he is evil. […] So far, we have your word that he is the most evil man in the world.

No. That is your word.

You are lying about what I said, Heru-ur.

The “within 48 hours” words were quoted in the NYT, the Air Force magazine, and The Marine Corps Gazette. I linked to the first and since I'm not your research assistant, you can look for the others yourself.

Lind’s world view seems to be one of impending East/West cultural war, in which he views “The Other” [“Islamic culture”] as an apocalyptic enemy.

From: “Fourth-Generation Warfare: Another Look” by William S Lind - published November 2001

Now we, the West, find ourselves increasingly under siege, no longer the world's master, merely one contender among many-one sinking down as others rise. Chinese culture, the West's most successful competitor over time, may face us only with a peaceful challenge. China has never desired to rule over non-Han peoples, beyond a few border buffer states.

The most immediate challenger is Islam, and here the challenge is not likely to be peaceful. Islam is today expanding outward in every direction from its traditional heartland: south into black Africa, east into southeast Asia and the Philippines, north into Europe. And also West: the fastest-growing religion in the United States is Islam. http://www.mca-marines.org/gazette/jan09-fourth-generation-warfare.asp

I think people's perspectives should be taken into account when appraising their words. In my opinion, Lind's world view is extrememly dangerous.

I stated my thoughts and opinions.

So did you.

It doesn't seem like either of us will be swayed by the other.

So, we might as well stop wasting each other's time.