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In reply to the discussion: How can 'strange bedfellows' unite to stop the Iran war? [View all]LeftishBrit
(41,453 posts)'Hitler made the mistake of invading other countries. He should have stayed at home and got on with the business of getting rid of the Communists and the gypsies'. (The only reason he didn't add 'and the Jews' is because there were a couple of us there.)
So - supposing Hitler were stopped from invading other countries, but permitted to continue exterminating minorities and dissidents at home? It would certainly have been much better than his extending his evil to other countries - for example, the death toll of Jews would have been in the hundreds of thousands, not in the millions- but it would still not have been a situation which one could 'not care less about'.
I do not imply that Paul and Buchanan are as bad as even a domestically-limited Hitler would have been; but they would still, if allowed in power, cause a great deal of suffering and death at home, not through active extermination policies, but by total non-intervention in extreme poverty, and by accepting and tolerating racism and other forms of bigotry in action.
Accept the anti-war votes of even people like the BNP by all means; but no compromises should be made with them.