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IN early August, President Bush said that we are at war with "Islamic fascists." This brought predictable harrumphs and guffaws from various American quarters and shouts of outrage from the Middle East. Seemingly in response, Bush quickly played down the narrow fascist angle, arguing that jihadis aren't fascists so much as co-marchers in the same parade of horribles. "They are successors to fascists, to Nazis, to Communists, and other totalitarians of the 20th century," he told an American Legion audience. Around the same time, Donald Rumsfeld warned that we face "the rising threat of a new type of fascism." He went on to suggest that those who fail to acknowledge this ...