[tet68]

Have you read “Before the Deluge” by Otto Friedrich?
or “Hitler Warned Us” by John Laffin?
or “On borrowed Time” by Lenard Mosley?
Or “Last Train from Berlin” by Howard K. Smith?

Watching what is happening today sends chills down
your spine after reading books like those.

If Obama had been president during the time of
Saddam Hussein, he would have GIVEN him Kuwait.

[dennisw]

Or, as William Manchester so rightly observed in his “The Arms of Krupp” history: “No one in Germany questioned Hitler’s sanity until he started to lose.”

[Billthedrill]

The first and the last of those, some years ago. The Friedrich book made quite an impression on me as an undergraduate but now I know so very much more...

I agree with you with respect to foreign policy. 0bama is an ignorant ideologue with neither knowledge nor respect for history and an inexplicable conviction that he's above it all. A decent choice for Secretary of State might have helped him but he didn't make one either chance he got.

Domestically, though, that's where I started squirming reading those books. He has a passionate, destructive, tribal following that has been very successful at bullying scapegoats, enjoys winning by cheating and intimidation, and is hell-bent on forcing the world into a mold it will never fit.