For the Leftists, it is difficult to admit that capitalism, a system built on the greed and self interests of the individual actually produces greater wealth and freedoms than Communism does. Their ideal society, which requires the individual to subordinate his interests for the greater good of his society, cannot be put into practice because it is against human nature.

For the Islamists, it is difficult to admit that their vision of the perfect Islamic state ruled in accordance to God's laws does not work because that would be saying that their religion is false. Muslims are expected to follow closely the words and deeds of their Prophet who lived 1,400 years ago as recorded in the Koran and Hadith. It is of course blasphemous of them to ask if their Prophet's behavior is still relevant or practical today. Both Leftists and Islamists are following false ideologies sustained by their faith. 

Failure to establishing their respective perfect societies does not prevent Leftists and Islamists to see America as the enemy of their world-view. This is rightly so as America is the chief defender of the democratic/capitalist combination that is sweeping the world and leaving them behind.

The Islamists are hostile to the idea of democracy. To the Islamists, democracy is a form of idolatry. It means that man makes the laws through the ballot box. Thus man's law is supreme and not God's laws as revealed 1,400 years ago to the Prophet. It means that democracies worship man, not God.

The Communists are suspicious of Democracy. Democracy, whose champion is also America , is a mask to disguise the fact that it is the greedy capitalists who control this world and not the people. Thus America 's wars in Afghanistan and the two Gulf Wars immediately aroused suspicions that these wars were fought at the behest of oil companies seeking profits.  

For the Islamists, any attack by an infidel nation is an attack on the Muslim Ummah. It does not matter if America is trying to replace the evil Saddam regime with a more humane democratic regime. What matters is that Iraq is a Muslim country, which is part of darul Islam. When Saddam caused the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people, neither the Leftists nor the Islamists organized any protests.

For both groups, the US is an example of a polity that competes with their vision of where the world should be headed. For the Leftists, it is the Socialist utopia. For the Islamists, it is the Islamic state and ultimately the world ruled by a Caliph in perfect obedience to God's laws. Thus the beliefs of both Leftists and Islamists in their respective false ideologies have given each of them a blind spot.

Both Islamists and Leftists even have the same excuse for their respective failures. After the failure of the Soviet Union , the Leftist say, "That is not true Socialism". After the failure of the Iranian, Saudi and Taliban Islamic states to provide a better life for their people, Islamists say, "That is not true Islam".

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