Fighting all the Hitlers

[WhollyHeretic]

A great piece by Glenn Greenwald on the rhetoric of the neocons.

As Bush followers gear up for another election year campaign to start a war, they are using exactly the same rhetorical tactics and are revealing precisely the same mindset to which we were subjected during the 2002 campaign for the Iraq War. What is starkly apparent from this repetition is that their awareness of history and knowledge of the world is sadly confined to one singular event, which is all they know and which, rather bizarrely, they have a need to live over and over and over again.

To pro-Bush war supporters, the world is forever stuck in the 1930s. Every leader we don't like is Adolf Hitler, a crazed and irrational lunatic who wants to dominate the world. Every country opposed to our interests is Nazi Germany.

From this it follows that every warmonger is the glorious reincarnation of the brave and resolute Winston Churchill. And one who opposes or even questions any proposed war becomes the lowly and cowardly appeaser, Neville Chamberlain. For any and every conflict that arises, the U.S. is in the identical position of France and England in 1937 – faced with an aggressive and militaristic Nazi Germany, will we shrink from our grand fighting duties in appeasement and fear, or will we stand tall and strong and wage glorious war?

http://glenngreenwald.blogspot.com/2006/04/fighting-all-hitlers_17.html#links

The link brings you to the bottom of the page so you have to scroll up for the article.

[RethugAssKicker]

1. They feel that way because its apopcalyptic...

The Nazi era was a war of almost biblical proportions... with death and destruction unlike anything ever seen before.... The regressives like that sort of stuff... They long for that era again... They want to be the new Churchill and FDR..

[WhollyHeretic]

3. They're trying to invoke the rapture

[Sinti]

2. They're just projecting. They need to take more time to know themselves.

According to the theories of Sigmund Freud, it is a psychological defense mechanism whereby one "projects" one's own undesirable thoughts, motivations, desires, feelings—basically parts of oneself—onto someone else (usually another person, but psychological projection onto animals and inanimate objects also occurs). The principle of projection is well-established in psychology.