Writes Bill Anderson: "Chomsky, Wallis, and other anti-war people on the left see capitalism as the cause of all war. Therefore, to eliminate war, you get rid of capitalism and bring back the regimes of yesteryear. Yes, as you and I know, those old dictatorships that these people admire (Stalin, Mao, Castro, Pol Pot, and the others) are the epitome of peace.

"The left-wing anti-war people with whom I am in contact here have no problem with the authorities raiding businesses, killing some people, and generally causing havoc. They have no problem with police tasing others, as long as the victims are white males of privilege. Remember, to a person, they approved of what happened to Michael Milken.

"We have underestimated the absolute hatred that these people have of capitalism. What they want is a world-wide North Korea, with no exceptions. Remember, Wallis excoriated the boat people of Vietnam in 1979, calling them 'consumerists in search of a fix.'"

On the other hand, the heroic Robert Scheer supports Ron Paul. When I met Bob at Bumper Hornberger's FFF conference, he told me: "You libertarians are right. We must abolish the federal government." My kind of leftist! (Thanks to John McCarthy.)