Barry York

Im signing this statement because I believe in the principle of people of different views uniting against a main enemy. The terrorists are fascists: theocratic anti-communists, haters of socialist internationalism and democracy. Their anti-imperialism is reactionary. They act on the barbarian egotism that Marx long ago condemned for its restraint of the human mind; the Oriental Despotism which he rightly said made the mind the unresisting tool of superstition, enslaving it beneath traditional rules, depriving it of all grandeur and historical energies. Modernity grows out of, and is defended by, the barrel of a gun. Im grateful to my parents generation who fought against Nazism and Fascism. Terrorism will not be defeated by picking at symptoms but by defeating it at its source: the basket-case societies headed by tyrants who brutally suppress aspirations for liberty. And this is precisely what Bush and the Coalition of the Willing are doing. The pseudo-left just dont get it!

Condoleezza Rice put it perfectly at Cairo on 20 June: For 60 years, the United States pursued stability at the expense of democracy in the Middle East and we achieved neither. Now we are taking a different course. Forward the global democratic revolution!

Dr Barry York OAM