Letters to the Editor
-
Correction
This:
As you can clearly see, there were no liberals or progressives in Germany during the years between the fall of the empire and the rise of the Third Reich. By 1933 all were abolished. Nobody but Nazis after that.
Should read:
As you can clearly see, there were progressives in Germany during the years between the fall of the empire and the rise of the Third Reich. By 1933 all the "liberal" parties were abolished. Nobody but Nazis after that.
-
*NO* progressives in Germany
Too fucking late to have to be dealing with total ignoramuses.
-
I understand the "hitler hysteria" charge, but...
Think about what pooh-poohing such hysteria implies. Are we saying that 6 million dead and a world war is the *lowest* the bar should be set? That no action is warranted until that bar is reached? If the bar is lower, then how low? The point of the "hysterics" (and it is a good one) is that it is better to defeat Hitler at the border of Poland rather than the gates of Auschwitz.
-
Doesn't Anonymous know that People are watching him when he's being so Grumpy up on stage?
And here comes Mister Anonymous, who bellows, "I smear anything to the right of Eisenhower as an asswipe" --
goodness !!
please, senor, take a seat. relax. let grumpy hour pass along behind you. -- comfy? -- good.
you can take swipes at everything under the sun with your on-going, characteristic, sophmoric bellyaching -- its really very entertaining. funny, very funny. But you ought not upchuck your bile while speaking of Ike. I like Ike. He was what we need now.
Now, now -- I hear those teeth gritting --- Methinks the problem in your appreciating fine leadership is this pavlovian propensity of disparaging anything with the moniker "republican" attached to it.
Of course you understanding that every slave-owning Head of State this nation has ever had was a loyal member of the Democratic Party. There was this one New England Democrat who made it to the White House (no, not that funny little guy in the tank) who was an enlightened friend of Hawthorne, and medal winning officer in the great american conquest of mexico city. His name was Franklin Pierce, the hope of the Yankee Democrats. But on the way to the innauguration, his choo-choo derailed its tracks. After an open casket viewing in the White House, the new President hid himself upstairs for the next four years, just he and his bottle -- while the wifey crowed her prayers downstairs --- and the conductorless nation barreled down the tracks toward civil war.
Ike --- was not so bad.
He told the Democrats to stuff it when they refused to allow black students to enroll at little rock high -- just ask hillary clinton, her husband, regardless of his propensity toward lying through his teeth, was there. he remembers.
Ike's administration skills through a long military career prepared him for command of the forces that destroyed the Hitlerian system once and for all. Afterwords, he headed NATO which stopped Stalin in his tracks from sweeping across Europe.
the most important lesson learned during his command of forces in Europe, both vs the Nazis & the Commies was the import of Communications --- Brigades needed to be moved in coordianted actions -- poor roads proved to be killers -- but he saw what was to come --- and came to understand the future --
Later when he entered the White House he used his experience to create a national highway system that brought the usa into the Communications Age --- connecting us all as one.
But after retiring from the Army, when he became president of Columbia University , he became frustrated by the bogtime that slowed communications between Columbia and other academic institutions. Some of those who worked under him were working on a project that could instantaneously transmit typed data over lines between universities. When he reached the White House, Ike called the boys in and initiated a system that came to be called ARPANET --- in time tim b-lee made it all user-friendly so that you can read these words a half moment after ive printed them --
now no matter what you heard outta al gore's mouth, i will tell you --- he , in fact, had little to do with the invention of the internet -- t'was ike --- the Destroyer of Nazism -- the ender of the Korean War that the Democrats gave us. And when Ike left the White House, that rascal kennedy started messin round with assasinations & troop landing in vietnam, (macho war hero, Jack Kennedy's nickname back then, was "The Cold Warrior") That war was further excalated by LBJ & his fellow conspiratorialists in the Democrat House & Senate.
Bush Junior blew this present war Bit Time --- President Hillary will have a time pulling her hands from that Tar Baby -- one she helped push for (to cover her husband's 8 years of incompetancies in totally missing the declared "JIHAD" against the US devils -- including you & me.
I like Ike -- had a good look on things --- the dems back then detested him with a passion. they didn't understand the future, as he did.
-
Sigh . . .
"totallyblase, who *did* you enjoy being called a nazi by?
that black dominatrix you hire by the half-hour?
-- david sugarman"
Davey, we'll leave your daughter out of this, please . . .
-
What is the Lesson for America from Hitler?
Glenn Greenwald is correct to pinpoint the necessity of war advocates to pepper their arguments with allusions to Hitler. But what, in fact, is the lesson to be learned from the rise of Hitler and America's response to him? It has already been noted that "Munich" was unavoidable, given that Britain was less equipped to fight Nazi Germany in 1938 than it was a year later, when even then it wasn't ready for another great war. But I submit the more important lesson to the West is that it could have avoided war with Hitler altogether. Had Britain and France not pledged themselves, foolishly, to go to war on behalf of Poland, Hitler's take over of that country might have been as relatively peaceful as that of Czechoslovakia. Furthermore, there would have been no Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, so that the inevitable confrontation between Hitler and Stalin may have come sooner and ended with less destruction to other countries. If the West had remained out of that fight, the two evil empires might have destroyed each other without the necessity of the West shedding its blood, and certainly not the United States. Not only would the world have been rid of Nazism, but it might have escaped forty to sixty years of the terror of communism upon the world, which claimed more lives, particularly in China, than did even World War II.
This is the lesson we should be taking from the experience of world with the likes of Hitler and Stalin, and the implications for how the U.S. should respond to crises in the Middle East, from Gaza to Pakistan, are obvious. We have two vast oceans to insulate us from the disputes between nations in the Eastern Hemisphere. The worst threat we endure is of an occasional 9/11, which itself was less costly to the United States than have been Bush's ensuing wars, and a threat which would be much less except for our government's military adventurism in the Muslim world. When are we going to learn that it is in our national interest only to stay out of their fights?