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Useful Idiots: How Liberals Got It Wrong in the Cold War and Still Blame America First (Hardcover)
by Mona Charen (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 308 pages
  • Publisher: Regnery Publishing Inc (1 Mar 2003)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0895261391
  • ISBN-13: 978-0895261397
  • Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 16.2 x 2.9 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 555,705 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)
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In this book, Mona Charen holds liberals accountable -- and reveals the horrifying crimes that these liberals helped defend and cover up for the Communists. Meet the 'useful idiots': Jane Fonda, Dan Rather, Al Gore, Ted Kennedy, Jimmy Carter, Jesse Jackson, and all the other liberals who were -- and are -- always willing to blame America first and defend its enemies as simply 'misunderstood'. These are the liberals who flocked to Castro's Cuba and called it paradise, just as a previous generation of liberals visited the Soviet Union and proclaimed its glorious future. They are the liberals who saw Communist Vietnam and Cambodia -- in fact, Communism everywhere -- as generally a beneficial force, and blamed America as a gross, blind, and blundering giant. Now that the Cold War has been won, these liberals, amazingly, are proud to claim credit for the victory -- conveniently forgetting their apologies for the Communists and their spluttering attacks on Cold Warriors like Ronald Reagan.

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4.0 out of 5 stars A very readable right wing look at the Cold War., 18 Feb 2004
By Wandering Dave (Lancashire) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Useful Idiots: How Liberals Got It Wrong in the Cold War and Still Blame America First (Paperback)
This book is right wing- almost shockingly so. The author is confindent that American aggression is always the right course of action. She also argues that any president willing to follow an active and aggressive foreign policy is doing so in order to protect american interests, but above all for the good of the world.

This book focuses on the reactions of liberals in America to various communist governements. The author argues that because these communist states were so brutal (which is a very valid point) anyone who defended them in American society was a "useful idiot." The term apparantly was used by Lenin to describe people in the West who were blind to the "realities" of Communism.

The book's historical accounts are very readable, and interesting. The main argument however is that because Communist states were so evil the American's who opposed them must, by default, be good. Following this logic any Americans who spoke out against these good anti-communist policies (a gro