On Oct 11, 6:20*pm, wf3h wrote:
On Oct 11, 6:07*pm, Gunner Asch wrote:

"Lenin called them "useful idiots," those people living in
liberal democracies who by giving moral and material support
to a totalitarian ideology in effect were braiding the rope that
would hang them. Why people who enjoyed freedom and prosperity worked
passionately to destroy both is a fascinating question, one still with us
today. Now the useful idiots can be found in the chorus of appeasement,
reflexive anti-Americanism, and sentimental idealism trying to inhibit
the necessary responses to another freedom-hating ideology, radical Islam"

Bruce C. Thornton, a professor of Classics at American University of Cal State Fresno- Hide quoted text -

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like the people who weep when an american president wins a nobel
prize, or jump for joy when the US loses the olympics?

are those the useful idiots...enemies of america...lenin had in mind?

Lenin probably never said that, anyway. It's often quoted, but
historically unsupported. Gunner has displayed his ignorance of
history before, so it would be typical of him to post such tripe.
There was a rumor that Lenin said something of that nature to Gorky,
but the quote appears nowhere in any of his writings or speeches.