If anything, today’s legions of Islamic Jihadists are a far worse, and more vexing, and intractable enemy.
1. The Nazis at least could be identified, they wore uniforms in the military tradition. When they “engaged the enemy” they came out and fought “like men” (which in their case only means, fought in a recognizably similiar way to the “real men” they were fighting).The Jihadists are perverse and dysfunctional in an entirely new way: they sacrifice their women and children willingly by hiding behind them and turning them into martyrs for their cause, the deathcult that would oppress them anyway, even in the
“best of (non-war) circumstances”.
2. At least the Germans who tacitly or nervously or “enthusiastically” supported the Nazi “Idea” came OUT of a culture, and could return TO a culture that was a great one with a great history, as damaged as it was by a dozen years of pure Hitlerism. Islamic Jihadists only want to “re”-establish a kind of culture and Law that never was, except in their feverish “imaginations”.
“Tomorrow the World” could just as easily be their motto, as they spread out like cancer cells all over the Planet Earth.They are an INFINITELY worse enemy than the Nazis-—there are FAR MORE of them, and they exist EVERYWHERE, playing the good cop/bad cop game to gain legitimacy in every place they’ve developed a foothold, which is just about everyplace there is.
Disagree.
The Nazis had a quite realistic chance of conquering the world. Without Churchill to rally the British to fight on when it looked utterly hopeless, they probably would have pulled it off. With no western front to worry about, they would almost certainly have taken Moscow and dismembered the USSR. Once that happened, the only thing that could have prevented their eventual conquest of the rest of the world would have been US nukes.
Despite my asking for over five years now, nobody has yet presented a realistic scenario whereby Islamists conquer the world. These are utterly incompetent people in a military sense, who cannot even manufacture their own simpler weapons. That’s no way to win a war.
Now, it is conceivable the rest of the world could just surrender to them. But even that seems unlikely, given the unrelieved bleakness of the lifestyle they promote. And if it happens, it tells us much more about the unwillingness of the rest of the world to fight, even in self-defense, than it does about the danger of the enemy. IOW, we collapsed because
IMHO, a far more likely scenario is that they will keep being an increasingly more severe irritant till the rest of the world insists on major surgery to remove them.
BTW, the “good cop/bad cop game” is our game (admittedly a really stupid one), not theirs. It ends whenever we refuse to play along.