440 Barack H. Obama: The Unauthorized Biography(^212) http://www.nydailynews.com/news/us_world/2008/07/02/2008-07-
02_dont_bomb_iran_bush_warns_israel-1.html
(^213) http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1215330891157&pagename
=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
(^214) http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/07/04/iran.threat/index.html
(^215) http://wiredispatch.com/news/?id=245597
(^216) http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/25/Brzezinski-warns-against_n_114999.html
(^217) Stanley G. Payne, A History of Fascism, 1914-1945 (Madison, Wisconsin: The University of Wisconsin
Press, 1995), 298.
(^218) Equally useless and misleading are the 10 steps to close down an open society offered by the left liberal
gatekeeper and feminist Naomi Wolf in her recent book End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young
Patriot. Wolf, who once advised Al Gore on earth tones, has served on the board of the Woodhull Institute.
Here she totally ignores the central issue, which is the indispensable role of the fascist mass movement as a
way of making society impose fascism on itself. Here there are no storm troopers in the street, no march on
Rome; everything is top down. Wolf’s steps all assume that fascism (identified with Bush) is already in
power. Her ten steps: “1. Invoke a terrifying internal and external enemy; 2. Create a gulag; 3. Develop a thug
caste; 4. Set up an internal surveillance system; 5. Harass citizens’ groups; 6. Engage in arbitrary detention
and release; 7. Target key individuals; 8. Control the press; 9. Dissent equals treason; 10. Suspend the rule of
law.” The stubborn refusal to address the fascist mass movement, which contains fervently idealistic students,
militant workers, and veterans as well as goons, blinds left liberals of this type to the way that fascism really
emerges. Wolf also still believes that the Reichstag was not arson by the Nazis, and her faith in the official
9/11 myth is still 100%.
(^219) See my 9/11 Synthetic Terror.
(^220) Emilio Gentile is Professor of Political Science at the University of Rome La Sapienza and Principal
Lecturer in History at the Rome Campus. He is a historian of fascism, best known for his interpretation of
fascism as a “political religion.” He is the author of several books, including The Sacralization of Politics in
Fascist Italy (Harvard University Press), The Struggle for Modernity: Nationalism, Futurism, and Fascism
(Praeger), The Origins of Fascist Ideology, 1918-1925 (Enigma), and Storia del partito fascista, 1919-1922:
movimento e milizia 221 (Laterza).
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200809/fallows-debates/6
(^222) For the following account, see Anthony Birley, Septimius Severus (London: Routledge, 1999), Tenney
Frank, An Economic History of Rome (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1927). And Sir Paul Harvey, The
Oxford Companion to Classical Literature (New York: Oxford University Press, 1984).