Since we're talking about our safety, I want to put a proposition to you," Hitchens said. "There's a tendency in these discussions, one which I very much reprobate, and one that I find a good deal in the New York Times, and also the Democratic Party, to watch this outcome as if to say, 'I wonder how it's going to work out? I wonder if Bush is going to win? I wonder if the Fedayeen Saddam or al-Qaida are going to? Some days it looks bad for one side, some days not so bad.'Of course, that would be people who live in such a free country that they can literally do or say almost anything and get away with it -- all the while screaming in agony at their so-called persecution.
"Who is daring to look at this as if they were a spectator? Who is watching this as a neutral?" [Emphasis added.]
As my "No Kidding Sam..." post pointed out, even after WWII we didn't have our act together to even congeal a faint shadow of the punishment that should have been meeted out. If we couldn't even properly punish the Nazis then, it's almost beyond risible to claim that after more decades of swelling decadence we could meaningfully persecute the left-liberal establishment of our own society. In fact, Goebbels himself would smile at the "big lie" of using character assassination rather than rational argument against an opponent.
This is what it looked like from the master himself:
One could not understand this war if one did not always keep in mind the fact that International Jewry stands behind all the unnatural forces that our united enemies use to attempt to deceive the world and keep humanity in the dark. It is so to speak the mortar that holds the enemy coalition firmly together, despite its differences of class, ideology and interests. Capitalism and Bolshevism have the same Jewish roots, two branches of the same tree that in the end bear the same fruit.Sound eerily familiar?
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