Carol: My remarks on Communism were not directed at Ms. Sgrena. They stand fine as they are. Your comments are rather confusing because Communism as practised pretty much in any country calling itself such was an overarching totalitarian system incorporating not only a command economy, but a command media, command philosophy, cult of personality, and command arts & sciences staffed from a command educational system.

My question on whether the fact that there are now eurocommunists is any different than the fact that there are now euronazis extant was never answered.

As to Ms. Sgrena, her assertions of being targeted by Americans (as opposed to being shot for speeding past a checkpoint) were not based on any facts that she brought forward. There is some question as to whether she is still asserting them. Her relation of the facts as she knows them seems to be a moving target. These qualities speak for themselves irrespective of what you call her or she calls herself, the most important word is not whether she qualifies as a big C or little c Communist, but whether she qualifies as any sort of journalist.