That awkward moment when a far left terrorist is asked to target Jews & help increase oil prices

[uhnope]

This is a trailer for "Protagonist" an amazing film about the lives of three amazing people. I highly recommend just watching it for the pleasure of great documentary filmmaking.

One of them is Hans-Joachim Klein

Klein blamed himself for realizing too late what terrorism was about. He now sees that he was used by Middle East organizations. While Klein thought the OPEC action was in support of the Palestinian cause; in reality it turned out to be a way for Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi to get a better grip on OPEC. Klein believed in the idealism of terrorism, but there proved to be great political powers at work that had their own agenda.

Same thing is happening now. You can see it all over. People who think they are left wing and that means they have to be "anti-Imperialism" which equates to supporting totalitarian despots in Syria, Venezuela, Russia, Bolivia. They support any movement that puts itself into opposition with the West. They actually are in favor of anything that is "anti-West" even if it is the opposite of what progressive is supposed to be.

[arcane1]

1. I fully support "anti-Imperialism"

I thought that was a good thing

[Fred Sanders]

2. The democratically elected governments and leaders of socialist Bolivia and Venezuela are "despots"?

????

[Midnight Writer]

3. Yes, folks in Libya and Iraq are in much better shape now

that those despotic dictators are gone. And I am sure the people of Syria will be much better off if the horrendous dictator Assad is replaced by ISIL.

I am as horrified as anyone by the Mid-East despots, (and I notice you did not include Saudi Arabia in your list) but fer Chrissakes, it's got to better living under them than nutjob fanatics who want an end-of-the-world conflagration and believe that mass beheadings of innocents and burning people alive in cages and massacring schoolchildren is a pathway to paradise.

We as a nation need to quit trying to force our ideals on foreign cultures using military might. Ideals must be build from the ground up, and eventually (though it may take centuries, and violent revolutions, as it did for us) basic human rights will always win out.