No, not THAT one. The other one. The one I won't print here because I don't want to make Google's search engine link to it. The one that describes the National Socialist Party of Germany in the 1930's.
That one.
Now it can be said that the N-word Germans had given Fascism a bad name. That wouldn't be accurate because Fascism already had a bad name. Really bad. The N-word Germans just gave us Fascism on steroids with an arsenic kicker. So now a modern commentator cannot connect the N-word and any other person, political party or social movement without being laughed out of the metaphorical building. And rightfully so, I would imagine but there are times when a cogent argument can be made of certain parallels between the Chancellor of N-word Germany and you-know-who.
The problem with drawing attention to these parallels is that people start extrapolating it back, in this case, to the American military, etc. and the connections start to look absurd. LET ME STATE CATEGORICALLY, THERE ARE NO PARALLELS, EITHER PHILOSOPHICALLY, MORALLY OR ETHICALLY BETWEEN THE AMERICAN MILITARY AND THE MILITARY OF GERMANY OF THE 30'S AND 40'S. Abu Graib and Haditha, notwithstanding, which I see as aberrations of long standing American military policy and military law.
N-word Germany | United States |
Highly trained, well equipped military. | Highly trained, well equipped military. |
Largely successful in it
s strategic goals of dominating Western Europe, it invades the Soviet Union in defiance of any rational strategic and tactical military considerations (two front war strains military capabilities). | With widespread international support, is largely successful in achieving it's strategic goals in Afghanistan but turns away to invade Iran Iraq. A strategic and tactical military blunder (too small a force to deal with civil unrest and growing insurgency) of incandescent proportions. |
Commander-in-chief with limited to no military strategic education and who is tone deaf to any criticism and advice contrary to his goal of establishing his place in history. | Ditto |
A "Bunker mentality" that refuses to accept or acknowledge the damage being done to his military force because of his policies | Ditto |
No let's do a little "thought experiment" like Einstein liked to call them. Imagine that the United States had continued to finish off the Taliban in Afghanistan. Imagine we took about a tenth of the money we've squandered in Iraq and rebuilt the infrastructure in Afghanistan. Schools, power plants, manufacturing facilities, etc.: a modern day Marshall Plan. Now imagine how the world and the mid-east situation would look if we had done THAT. And imagine how we could then turn, along with the international community, that once was on our side, to the problem of Saddam Hussein.
It staggers the mind.
Now I know the Brotherhood and Sisterhood of Traveling Asshats known as the modern Republican Party will disagree but it must be a steadily dawning realization to many former War cheerleaders that George W. Bush and his clown show of an Administration has so completely and thoroughly mismanaged the effort in Iran. The military is being broken. Our nation's ability to address real threats has been severely weakened, and Bush is bunkered down in his own head and refuses to face this reality. As long as that reality threatens the Republican Party's political power there will be no real solutions to this f.u.b.a.r. situation. Bush will stumble along, berating ANY hint of failure that squeaks out in the mainstream media until circumstances change and he can put the blame on someone, anyone else.
He has his place in history to think of.
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