Fascism For Freedom

[rich]

On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 2:09 PM, Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:
> My point was that Nixon was pragmatic and what he did stuck,  China became
> cheap labor for the capitalists, the dollar became the world's primary
> reserve currency, Chile put the kebosh for decades on Latin American
> countries' move to nationalize extractive industries, while Hitler brought
> himself and his country to ruin.The comparison is a stretch but I think of
> fascism as a broader pattern than the specific and unique horrors
> perpetrated by the Nazis.
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I don't think the US is a fascist state. it has fascist tendencies but
maybe what we need is new terminology

>The Japanese were also cruel and ruthless and aggressive but we don't have the same image of them as the incarnation of evil.
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coincidentally, just watched the epic Japanese film, The Human
Condition, which I think addresses the above directly. highly
recommend it by the way--the militaristic domination of Japan during
the war is strongly seen as well, evil. (The increasing strain of that
in post WW2 American history is definitely a parallel. An interview
with a tribal sheik in Anbar province who fought against the Sunni
insurgents today noted that the Americans basically have two ways of
dealing with its enemies/future partners--we either pay you or kill
you. That's how cracked the US deals with its foreign policy
problems.)


To the people bombed, starved , tortured and terrorized during the
> Johnson Nixon Reagan years  probably hard to tell the difference between one
> boot and another. For decades the POTUS has been called the leader of the
> "free" world.
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absolutely. I don't think Americans realize the level of destruction
we laid down in SE Asia. I have no problem thinking of Nixon and
Kissinger and Rumsfeld as war criminals.

rich


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> On Oct 3, 2009, at 12:40 PM, rich wrote:
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>> He was smarter and more effective than Hitler in extending his nations
>> imperial power and the power of the executive branch
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>> insane
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