08-13-2016, 04:01 AM
(08-11-2016, 06:09 PM)X_4AD_84 Wrote:(08-11-2016, 04:55 PM)David Horn Wrote:(08-10-2016, 01:18 PM)Cynic Hero Wrote: Assad is the closest thing there is to the "good guy" in Syria.
Not taking you even a little bit seriously, but, for the record, Assad has butchered several hundred thousand of his own citizens. Usually, we consider genocide to be at the top of the evil list, so your comment is simply bizarre and disgusting.
We even had his type in the run up to WW2 (although I think during the war most were either locked up, drafted then knocked into shape, or they simply shut up and laid low). The typical person with this attitude listened to Fr. Coughlin and was an America Firster. I heard the stories from my GI relatives before they passed away. Brown shirts and others more clandestine were known to exist. They would make comments like "Hitler knows how to get things done, we need a leader like that."
Today they listen to Rush Limbaugh and tell us that Vladimir Putin knows how to get things done...
There was good cause for Fritz Capra's Why We Fight , explaining what the Axis powers were up to based upon their behavior in their own countries even before they imposed their infernal regimes elsewhere.
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.