The Hitler Analogy
By Anne Applebaum
Tuesday, May 20, 2008; A13"Some seem to believe that we should negotiate with the terrorists and radicals. . . . We have heard this foolish delusion before. As Nazi tanks crossed into Poland in 1939, an American senator declared: 'Lord, if I could only have talked to Hitler, all this might have been avoided.' "
-- George W. Bush, May 2008
"Moreover, in our time, these threats are not diminishing. . . . [and] in these new threats, as during the time of the Third Reich, are the same contempt for human life and the same claims of exceptionality and diktat in the world."
-- Vladimir Putin, May 2007
No, I am not drawing comparisons between George W. Bush and Vladimir Putin, two vastly different men, by citing these statements.
Sometimes cowardice makes you lose a perfectly good point.
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