Letters to the Editor
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If the American Right
has any ideas worth mentioning, they're keeping them well-hidden. I keep waiting to hear or read something - anything - that resembles a coherent intelligent analysis of world events. But all I get is this loony extremism.
Iran is Hitler's Germany. Sure. Germany was a highly- industrialized, populous country in the middle of Europe with the largest, most effective military machine in the world at the time of the invasion of Poland. Iran, by contrast, is a small, not very industrially advanced country with a militarily inept army (it was unable to defeat Saddaam Hussein's army which was rolled over in a matter of days by coalition forces in 1991), no nuclear weapons and no way to deliver a nuclear weapon if it had one. And of course, as with all nuclear powers, Iranian leaders know full well that a strike against the US would bring the most horrific retaliation imaginable. That prospect has deterred every other nuclear power from attacking the US for roughly 60 years, but these crazies want us to believe that Iran would, for some reason be different.
The Right is out of ideas. It's left with shouting, fearmongering and making up facts. It is intellectually dead.