What causes Western intellectuals and journalists to suspend their critical faculties and euphorically embrace genocidal anti-Western regimes and tyrants like the Islamic Republic of Iran and Saddam Hussein’s Iraq? John Sweeney, from the BBC World Service, explores this question in a two part BBC documentary series entitled “Useful Idiots,” which can be heard online for only two more days.

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