Dec 19, 2004 16:39
"Naturally the common people don't want war, but after all it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag people along...Voice or no voice the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. This is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and for exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country."
Reich-Marshall Hermann Goering at the Nuremburg Trials
Aren't the parallels amazing? To think that the Reich-Marshalls who led Germany into Poland, through eastern Europe and finally into France in order to protect their countrymen from the Jews hauntingly mirror the US and its drive to march into countries which posed no threat to protect the homeland from the Baathists. Granted the Jews were no Baathists, but I find Bush to be on the same level with this Reich-Marshall Goering. Bush, could in fact be tried for war crimes. 65 years earlier the same mentality existed.
This Goering's strategy is brillaint. It always seems that the craziest men are always the most intelligent.
::cough::
Chris Brielman