Shifting One's Views When Presented With New Information
There are substantive differences between those on the left and those on the right, in my opinion. And i don't think it's a mark of a hypocrite to shift one's views when presented with new information. But there is obviously some substance to at least himan. He was just the enemy. As he says, the enemy they fought in the 19 seventies is the same enemy he is would fight to day.
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Growing up in the generation following the second world war, Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin and Ulrike Meinhof lead the West German militant Red Army Faction in a series of bombings, kidnappings and assassinations during the 1970s that led to the death of 35 people. Identifying with various leftist and communist causes including anti-imperialism, Maoism, and opposition to the Vietnam War, the group sought a break in their society from what they felt was a continuation of their parents’ generation of fascist government now under the control of what they saw as the American-led capitalist war machine. The group and their leaders in particular gained notoriety in the press and significant popularity amongst the youth of Germany, underscoring the generational divide that seemed to be growing in the shadow Nazi Germany’s defeat and subsequent de-Nazification process.
