Sentences with phrase «called useful idiots»

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By allowing themselves to be co-opted as useful idiots to support a so - called «noble cause», where the ends justify the means as well as failing to exhibit a modicum of caution or undertake due diligence, they now find themselves endorsing an industry denying in public what it knows in private to be true.

Those enemies from within can be either well - meaning and sincere but insufficiently schooled in history and human nature, or they can be, as the Soviets (who themselves knew darn well that communism was a failed ideology that could only be maintained by force) called Western communist sympathizers, «useful idiots».