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The Ghosts of Hitler?

By Robert Justin Lipkin

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Today's NY Times includes this important book "To be neoconservative is to bear almost daily witness to the resurrection of Adolf Hitler. ''Truly Hitlerian,' the Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer pronounced Saddam

Hussein's saber-rattling before Iraq invaded Kuwait. Three days after the 9/11 attacks, Paul Wolfowitz, then deputy defense secretary, opined that Osama bin Laden and his Al Qaeda followers 'misread our system as one that's weak, that can't take casualties. ... Hitler made that mistake' Norman Podhoretz, the former editor of Commentary, said of the Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad last spring, 'like Hitler, he is a revolutionary whose objective is to overturn the going international system.' In the same month, the defense analyst Richard Perle mused on whether it had been ''a correct reading' of the Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat 'to believe that business could be done with him that would produce a result? I don't think so. These are the difficult decisions. Diplomacy with Hitler. Chamberlain went to Munich, presumably on the theory that you talk to your enemies and not to your friends, and what did it produce?" For more on this disturbing, anti-democratic, and radical strain of American conservatism click here. The irony, of course, is that neoconservatism is perhaps the most genuine and insidious form of totalitarianism ever before known to American politics. If one were to engage in the same kind of dangerous hyperbole typical of neoconservatives--and thereby trivializing the death's of Hitler's victims--one could say that the members of this cabal are truly the ghosts of Hitler or as close to Hitler as any American can reasonably hope to get. For additional views on this movement click here and here inter alia.

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Full post as published by Essentially Contested America on January 13, 2008 (boomark / email).