...then you have people like Lab2112.

I hope you'll stay at it regardless.

Since you probably haven't read The Protocols, it would explain your ignorance when you repeat those age-old conspiracy theory narratives in your unhinged rants. However ignorance of bigotry is not an excuse. Most people filled with classic hate narratives are unaware that they're seeking out and cherrypicking the facts to support their predetermined narrative.

In your case, it's Jewish Americans working in funding streams to control the American government to fight wars for Israel. In your fever-dreams, PNAC and AIPAC pull the puppet strings of autotomoton democratic and republican congressmen and Presidents, who unquestioningly do their bidding.

We really invaded Iraq because it would "help Israel." We know this because Joe Lieberman is a devout Jew, and he supported the invasion.

Lieberman, like other cherrypicked war supporters who are Jewish will now be linked to the "dual loyalty" narrative, in which Jews are never fully members of the country they live in, and their allegiances are suspect.

Take the following:

In the hands of the States of to-day there is a great force that creates the movement of thought in the people, and that is the Press. The part played by the Press is to keep pointing our requirements supposed to be indispensable, to give voice to the complaints of the people, to express and to create discontent. It is in the Press that the triumph of freedom of speech finds its incarnation. But the GOYIM States have not known how to make use of this force; and it has fallen into our hands. Through the Press we have gained the power to influence while remaining ourselves in the shade; thanks to the Press we have got the GOLD in our hands, notwithstanding that we have had to gather it out of the oceans of blood and tears. But it has paid us, though we have sacrificed many of our people. Each victim on our side is worth in the sight of God a thousand GOYIM.

An excerpt from the 1880s Russian propaganda forgery, "The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion," although I'm sure you agree with it.

If you want to believe you only think Jewish Americans secretly control the American media to start wars that Jews and Israelis benefit from, go right ahead. But don't expect me not to mock you for being an ignorant moron with a weak mind, falling prey to the age old seduction of hate filled narratives that existed long before Israel was a glimmer in Herzl's eye.

I'm glad you came back. I wanted to thank you for leaving what is probably my favorite comment ever since I began blogging:

http://tinyurl.com/8q6txb

It'll be difficult for you to reach those heights ever again.

Monday night's Daily Show had great coverage of the fighting in Gaza, along with analysis of our officials and anlaysts.

Could Hitler have been stopped prior to WWII?

1) The "appeasement" argument keeps popping up in all military/political discussions. It's effective because it's indisputable. (Not true or accurate or even relevant, mind you, but merely indisputable. From the wikipedia entry about the Rhineland.

Heinz Guderian, a German general interviewed by French officers after the Second World War, claimed: "If you French had intervened in the Rhineland in 1936 we should have been sunk and Hitler would have fallen".[12] Hitler himself later said:

"The forty-eight hours after the march into the Rhineland were the most nerve-racking in my life. If the French had then marched into the Rhineland we would have had to withdraw with our tails between our legs, for the military resources at our disposal would have been wholly inadequate for even a moderate resistance."[13]

2) German rearmament meant huge profits for those companies indifferent to the consequences of their business dealings. There was no counterbalance to their influence in their home countries; indeed, when profit is the measure of success, war self-justifies. Companies profit from the preparations for war, the execution of the war, and the reconstruction after the war. (See, for instance, Halliburton.)

3) The appeasement argument -- wrapped in fear and tribalism -- gives credence to "defense" industries. These same industries (interests) then drive (and finance) domestic political arguments. They only need a few missles or a selection of intemperate statements by opponents or an outrageous attack (whether false flag or not) to justify their actions. Indeed, at a certain point, those who've offered the appeasement argument cannot distinguish between proportionate response and scorched earth "shock and awe" tactics like those being used against Gaza. Anything less constitutes appeasement. Like the German war machine, the Israeli war machine follows its instincts.

4) German rearmament wouldn't have been stopped had France marched an army into the Rhineland, but German territorial ambitions would have been met with legitimate use of force. Hitler would have been discredited and his future incursions (Sudetenland) might have been avoided or at least restrained. As it was, after a symbolic move into the Rhineland, the successful use of force further justified militarizing domestic politics.

If Hitler could have been stopped, the time for opposition was immediately after his occupation of the Rhineland. But given the opportunities for wealth WW2 brought, I doubt few with the ability to stop German rearmament/militarism would have found it in their interests to do so.

I think concern about Israel's actions strengthening Hamas are well intended by misplaced. A “strong” Hamas, i.e. one that is able to keep up flea bite attacks and spew silly rhetoric, works to Israel’s advantage.

Israel created the secular Hamas as a counterbalance to the non-secular PLO. They fed and nurtured the organization over the years as a way to further divide and neuter the Palestinians. Israel needs Hamas extremism and intransigence as much as Hamas needs Israeli extremism and intransigence.

Israel is and always will be in the driver’s seat. It could have peace when and where it wants it. However, every peace initiative is always made contingent in such a way that it is always held hostage to the actions, alleged or actual - provoked or unprovoked, of Palestinian or Lebanese extremists. This helps Israeli leadership maintain the image of working for peace while maintaining the status quo of slow strangulation of Palestinian society.

In a related vein, the Gaza Ghetto is a convenient shooting gallery for Israeli politicians trying to prove their mettle. Hamas and it stupidity pose no existential threat to Israel, no matter what spittle flecked speech might be roared out at Friday prays in Gaza City. Hamas and its flea bites offer a convenient rationale for any action deemed necessary to protect the right of Israeli politicians to exist.

So how will the current conflict strengthen Hamas? I suppose it might lead to even more desperate Gaza residents volunteering to waste their lives for the hopeless cause of achieving an independent Palestine. Or perhaps the propagandists are right and we should believe that we are on the brink of witnessing legions of Hamas Storm Troopers goose stepping their way to Jerusalem. Again, a “stronger” Hamas might help Hamas achieve its only realistic goal, organizational survival, but does not move the Palestinians closer to achieving any sort of independence. It does, however, fit in neatly with the Israeli objective of maintaining the status quo.

I applaud Glenn for standing up for reason and morality. Unfortunately for the common people suffering in Gaza, Israelis suffering from incompetent and blood thirsty leadership, and American tax payers who are footing the bill and reaping the whirlwind, neither side has an incentive to end the Israel/Hamas dance of death.