Beware the Hitler talk [View all]
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Hillary Clinton, on March 5, said that Putin’s concern for Russians in Ukraine is like Hitler’s concern for Germans in Poland and Czechoslovakia.
It is also like Ronald Reagan’s concern for US medical students in Grenada by which he justified his 1983 invasion of that small island nation.
Clinton said, “We can learn from this tactic that has been used before.”
That is good advice if by "this tactic" we mean
a) personifying a nation by its leader’s personal name, and
b) labelling that leader “Hitler.”
This is a sure way to activate a demon in the American national memory and to mobilize the United States to again fight evil personified by the new Hitler.
John Kerry said Assad is Hitler. John McCain said Castro is Hitler. George Bush said Saddam was Hitler. Donald Rumsfeld said Chavez was Hitler. The list of leaders the US has targeted as Hitler includes Allende (Chile), Noriega (Panama), Ortega (Nicaragua), Milosevic (Serbia), Arafat (Palestine), Gaddafi (Libya), Ahmadinejad (Iran), and Kim (North Korea).
http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/03/28/viewing-the-ukraine-crisis-from-russias-perspective/
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