To suggest that the "average" American has an attitude of "nuke 'em" is patently ridiculous.
I didn't suggest the average american has that attitude, I suggested that Bush is tapping into the ones that do.
Hitler came to power out of the ashes and poverty of World War I and the global economic downturn of the late 1920's and early 1930's. He had a message of a resurgent and mighty Germany, restored to its rigthful place as a global military leader and an economic power once again, and was elected from a base of misery on that basis and largely delivered on that promise until
Well you amazingly forgot to mention how he whipped his country (Germany I mean) into a frenzy by placing much of the blame on the Jews and other minorities. This was integral to his rise to power. Blaming other groups cause Germany it'self could never have fallen so far on it's own.
9/11 changed the world. Twenty years from now, that's what we'll remember. Wrong, it changed Americas world and now it's doing that for the rest of us thanks very much, with aggresive knee jerk policy. You think those families who had members killed by the Irish Republican Army think the world changed after 9/11? No. The world at most, will remember the US reaction to 9/11.
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