re Amerikaka (NP?)

[MalignD at aol.com]

<<...  it becomes easier to imagine the sort of drift that must have taken 
over right-thinking and even intelligent people in Nazi Germany.  What they 
were doing must have seemed right and obvious every step along the way. 
Pokler couldn't see it coming, let himself get entangled, he never really had 
a chance the way the movies hooked him in of course, realized too late what 
crimes he helped commit. >>

And this is especially relevant to the goings-on in Afghanistan, since it 
happened to a made-up German in a thirty-year-old novel, set some twenty-five 
years earlier.