07-05-2016, 11:15 PM
(07-05-2016, 08:09 PM)Dan Wrote:
...which is about like praising Adolf Hitler for his anti-smoking programs.
I really hate to bring up you-know-who, but Saddam Hussein is one of the few people for which such a comparison has relevance without hyperbole.
Ironically, should Donald Trump want someone worthy of praise for dispatching terrorists -- it's someone with "Hussein" as his middle name, not his surname.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.