"But the world isn't like that"

[pynchonoid]

It's not a bad analogy, not perfect but not bad.  The
rest of the world accepted Hitler and his crimes
aganst humanity well enough as long as it looked like
he would be reasonable enough to do business -- the
way the US (and other countries and especially
corporations) cozied up to Hussein in Iraq and looked
the other way and ignored his crimes against humanity,
 the same way the US has created and supported a long
line of bloodthirsty, greedy dictators around the
world. If  

The analogy begins to break down when you recall that
there were more than a few Hitler sympathizers in the
UK and France and the US and elsewhere before, during,
and after WWII, but as far as I know you don't find
many Hussein sympathizers anywhere these days -- even
Rummy castigates him who not 20 years ago was licking
boot as Reagan's go-between while courting Hussein.


--- jbor <jbor at bigpond.com> wrote:
> Seeing as you've made the Nazi comparison, which
> isn't really apt in this
> case at all, I'll add that what history (and GR)
> shows is the way that the
> Allies ignored the threat posed by Hitler for way
> too long, and the way they
> didn't know or didn't want to know about the mass
> exterminations going on in
> the German death camps. Saddam's extermination
> campaigns against the Kurds
> and Assyrians in northern and western Iraq, his
> imprisonment and murder of
> political opponents, and his persecution of Chaldean
> and other Christian
> communities, are components of a despotic and
> genocidal regime every bit as
> deplorable as that of the Nazis. But perhaps the
> deaths and torture of
> Kurdish and Assyrian people don't matter.


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