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Originally Posted by Diesel911
The few people that read Mein Kemf (Hitlers book) also thought it was bunk. Foolish ideas backed by alot of fanitical foolish people can cause a lot of damage; and how much more so if you have "The Bomb".
Next the US tries to depend too much on wealth and strength and not enough on its brains. When you try to drive a small nail with a sledge hammer you make a mess of yourself and what you are working on.
If the GOV wants no nukes in Iran we will have to act. I don't believe sanctions are going to work. I don't think that right or wrong will matter.
In order to pull it of we need a European consensus that we are not likely to get as they are more often the victims of terrorism than we have been.
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I agree with you 100% on all your points.
I have noticed a certain reticence, in some quarters, to draw parallels between Hitler's writings (as well as the writings of other similar individuals) and situations currently confronting society.
We can bury our collective heads in the sands of history or we can use the lessons of the past to provide us with a road map, albeit an incomplete one, on how to navigate the challenges of the future.
Yes, Hitler is often a convenient boogeyman, but he has earned that right by the sheer magnitude of the horros he visited upon the people of the world, Germans included.
Of course, some of us who drive Benzes, or Porsches (and let's not forget BMW and VW) or who tool along the German autobahns can assuage our consciences by arguing that Hitler was not "all that bad" or that the Holocaust was just one big old misunderstanding.