This campaign, entirely negative, attacks Bill Clinton as a dangerous leftist in the grip of alien ideology.

Then we were being challenged by a formidable adversary and an alien ideology.

Instead, the official line became that the terrorists were infected with an alien ideology, imported by those who fought in Afghanistan or Chechnya, and that the religion espoused by Saudis is a peaceful one.

Saudi Arabia accused Iran today of seeking to impose alien ideologies on fellow Moslem nations in the Arab world to the detriment of the Arab campaign against Israel.

And most diehards care because they are at war against some alien ideology.

"Contrary to popular belief, it was not the product of foreign powers and alien ideologies," he writes.

The Islamic Front, calling itself simply "the party of God," had alarmed many Algerians by talking of democracy as an alien ideology and threatening to ban non-Islamic newspapers.

The Thatcherite creed of free-market capitalism and self-reliant individualism is an alien ideology in the northeast, where local dependency on the paternalistic 19th-century industrialist has been replaced by dependency on the state.

However, in breach of this agreement, the Chinese authorities forced upon Tibetans their rigid and alien ideology and showed scant respect for the unique culture, religion and way of life of the Tibetan people.

More important, the whole rancid affair caused an American generation to develop grotesque, indelible images of a twisted drama based on a hysteria about some alien ideology called Communism invading their country.