Reply #3: I don't think most leftists are keen on the likes of Hezbollah...

[LeftishBrit]

however, I think that the war, and opposition to it, have created strange bedfellows. Anti-war leftists are sometimes tempted to seek allies who are far-RW on everything but the war; and to assume that there must be something good in anything that Bush opposes. For some, this includes Islamic fundies. For others, it includes xenophobic isolationists of the BNP/ LePen/ Pat Buchanan variety.

Let us never forget that the enemy of my enemy is NOT always my friend - and that the forerunners of the Taliban were originally built up by Republicans who thought they must be OK as they were against Brezhnev.