Re: The joy of Democracy

On Thu, 17 Oct 2024 23:39:22 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:

Still, those stories of German businessmen meeting with their U.S.
counterparts in New York in 1940 are a bit chilling.

Not a bit surprising. Those who escaped the gas ovens and found refuge in
the US and elsewhere tried to tell their new compatriots about what was
going on in Germany, but found very few people willing to listen. Most
Americans didn’t want to hear anything bad about that “nice Mister
Hitler”, who was such an important bulwark against the scourge of
Communism. And such a devout Christian, too.

Slaughtering his own people → OK.
Invading another country (Poland) → not OK.

Sound familiar? A similar story with Saddam Hussein. Only this right-wing
dictator was seen as a bulwark against the Islamic fundamentalists in
Iran.

Slaughtering his own people → OK.
Invading another country (Kuwait) → not OK.

And history is repeating itself yet again today. All those pious
platitudes about “never again” are proving to be just hot air ...