Provocative Questions
Dennis Rahkonen (’The Republican Wile E. Coyote‘, 6-27-05) thinks that Durbin’s apology was unwise. In his view, we should perhaps be making more actual historical comparisions between this administration and that of Hitler’s Germany. Here are some starter questions for eager researchers…
Did German motorists have “Support Our Troops” ribbons on their Volkswagens in 1943?
Did conservatives loyal to Hitler pooh-pooh reports of Jews being abused in concentration camps in the same way neocon Bush backers blithely dismiss documentation by Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International and even the FBI that Muslims are being routinely abused at U.S. detention centers in Afghanistan, Iraq and Cuba?
Did they actually believe the contrived pretext for the Wehrmacht’s assault on Poland? (Nazi provocateurs dressed in Polish military uniforms “attacked” German border posts and a German radio station.)
Was there a German entertainer like Toby Keith who rallied backing for the official cause with jingoistic, xenophobic phonograph recordings?
When news of Guernica, Lidice and the Warsaw Ghetto reached the German masses, were they any less propagandized about what really happened there then we are about Fallujah?
Was the German press as craven in refusing to criticize Hitler’s purpose as the American media are in failing to seriously challenge George Bush?
Finally, will history and humankind accord his despicable war for oil and hegemony any kinder status than they have for the crimes of the Third Reich?
Good questions. Dennis is correct. This administration is frighteningly close to Hitler’s. I have been saying that for some time, as have many.
My question is, will this country awaken any faster than Hitler’s Germany did, if it did, indeed, awaken prior to being defeated? Or will repeat history? I am afraid of the answer.
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Excellent questions, excellent post; and I have to echo gbreez’ fears that our country may very well not awaken fast enough. I really REALLY hope those fears don’t manifest.