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Originally Posted by Tashah
Although I have undeniable problems with many policies of the Bush administration, I cannot agree to a correlation between Dubya and Hitler. To do so is as disingenuous as it is offensive, as it implies that the President of the United States surreptitiously pursues a policy of Ausrottung.
The correlation is also disturbing on another level, as it tends to redact the criminality of Hitler in order to attenuate the shortfalls of George W. Bush. If your overarching intent is to demonize Dubya through historical analogy, I would suggest that you parse the annals of history with a bit more honesty and circumspection.
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I disagree, as I said in my post, it is good to question and compare because it saves us from the next true "Hitler".
It doesn't take away the attrocities of Hitler, in fact it keeps those attrocities remembered even moreso, and allows us the oppurtunity to prevent them from happening again.
I would rather compare and see the differences, then be blindly following and not see the similarities and in what way those similarities are being used.
I think it's fair to compare all our future presidents to the most evil and to the greatest leaders, so that we can guard against tyranny and promote the best in our society.