I noticed that no one remarked that NAZI stood for the National Socialist Worker's Party. Trying to link that to conservatives of today and the individuals who were tried at Nuremberg is a long stretch, even for liberals.

You may also have noticed that one of the victors was the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics that committed crimes against their own people before the war under Stalin.

Nuremburg was just another show of "winners make the rules", which is not saying that top Nazis should have been persecuted but how do you justify jail terms for Generals and other officers who were only guilty of fighting a war, not committing war crimes? It was the same attitude at Versailles of punishing the Germans for starting the war, continuing the naval blockade starving civilians and creating the climatefor the rise of Hitler. In fact, one of the signers stated that "All we have done is guarnatee another war in a generation." He was off by one month.

The point is ideology has no place in determining what is best for this country. Left or right, in-between, petty politics has no place in America right now. If Obama is to be the leader, time to lead, no more Bush blaming for inaction on the economy, defense, foreign affairs, etc..
We need to get our own house in order first, then we can look for grand causes elsewhere to solve. I wouldn't wait too long though, there's not much difference between a hungry democrat and a hungry republican when they look at DC where the table is always overflowing for some special interest group. Eventually the people will come to even out the portions regardless of party. It would do many good to keep this in mind.

by WaffenSS on 11/20/2009 09:59:24 PM EST