"We in the killin' Nazi business. And cousin, business is a-boomin'."
Posted on 08/30/2017 12:17:18 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Japanese Deputy Prime Minister Taro Aso sparked outrage Tuesday after suggesting that the Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler, who persecuted millions and sought the extermination of the Jewish people, had the “right motives.”
The comment was made in an address to lawmakers of his ruling Liberal Democratic Party to provide an example that politicians are remembered for the results they achieve regardless of their motivations.
“Hitler, who killed millions of people, is evil even if his motive was right,” Aso said, as quoted by the Japanese Kyodo news agency.
The remarks sparked outrage, and the main opposition Democratic Party questioned his suitability for his two roles—Aso is both deputy prime minister and minister of finance.
Aso then issued a statement clarifying his position on Hitler’s crimes and retracting his comments.
"It was inappropriate to use Hitler as an example, and I retract that," Aso said, according to the statement quoted in Reuters. "That I am very opposed to Hitler is clear from the entirety of my remarks, and it’s clear that Hitler’s motivations were wrong."
"My comments differ from my feelings, and it’s regrettable that they caused misunderstanding," he added.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...
You’d think by now, people would learn that mentioning Hitler is a no-win. There is no upside in mentioning him in any capacity.
Best case scenario, is the Nazis take Moscow, resulting in Stalin’s ouster and a new non-Bolshevik government taking hold and then defeating Hitler.
Leftists hate Jews all the world over, and leftist Jews must hate themselves to put up with it.
To be charitable, I think he meant to say, “Hitler, who killed millions of people, would have been judged evil even if his motive had been right,”
A better example would have been: "Stalin, who killed millions of people, is judged evil despite what his motives might have been". But this would have made the Left explode.
Well, I look at this way: it's the difference between business and pleasure.
When I play computer wargames about the Eastern Front, I am playing for pleasure. I always play the German side because it's always a pleasure to "kill" commies.
When I play Western Front games, I always play the Brits or the Americans because then it's a pleasure to get down to the business of "killing" Nazis.
That's the old joke about who a Pole shoots first. Of course, he shoots the German, before the Russian, business before pleasure.
Mao, Stalin, Pol Pot also had good motives. Let’s put up statues.
"We in the killin' Nazi business. And cousin, business is a-boomin'."
Note how a similar tactic, not against the Jews as the scapegoat, but against "the 1%," was adopted by Obama, and lately by the Clintons. The motives of these demagogues were hardly "noble." The willingness to slaughter innocents in order to impose monolithic rule on others has characterized the great myopic, compulsion driven movements of the past Century, and is reflected anew by some of the remarks of the Trump haters in America today.
Whether amoral tactics constitute madness or not, is open to debate. That we dare not ignore the fact that ruthless people do not even respect values that motivate decent people, is obvious in all who look closely at those monolithic movements of the past century.
Exactly.
For libs, no one has ever been evil but Hitler. Oh wait. Unless we’re talking all of US history except the Civil War and Lincoln.
That’s not the motive he was talking about, and you should know that.
Hitler like most socialists, thought he was going to do good for his country, his people.
As some stated, it’s not nearly even 50% the motive, though. It’s the result that counts, at least 90%. I’ll give some credit for motive, but not nearly as much as our own commie leftists do.
Liberal Democrat Party is sorry you are offended/they got caught.
#SocialismsGoodIntentions
“even if his motive was right”
Analytically, this implies his motive was wrong. He’s saying the ends DO NOT justify the means.
BUT … Hitler is the unspeakable horror. It is not imaginable that his motive could be good.
I’ll give an example:
Q: Imagine that the surface of the Sun is 70 degrees fahrenheit. Why would you still not be able to live on the Sun?
A: Because it’s too hot.
I agree to a point, but in fact Hitler and certain of his murderers were not cynical about the thing but True Believers, Hitler to the point where he actually sidetracked trains full of needed war supplies headed to the Eastern front in favor of trains full of concentration camp prisoners coming the other way, rather than allow the latter to be liberated. That sort of monomania becomes clinical insanity when it results in self-destructive behavior. That describes Hitler to a T. Anyway, that’s my case for Hitler’s insanity. Others who know more psychiatry than I do disagree. YMMV.
Best case scenario: First we (the US) defeat Nazism. Then we defeat Communism. I would like to thank all those who served during the Cold War.
We may have "defeated" the Soviet Union. But one look at our Universities and Media tell me we have a long way to go to defeat Communism.
I’m with you.
It is for each generation to manure the tree of liberty, or something like that.
T. Jefferson
The Nazi example, you cite. It is interesting that young George Soros played a part. You mention diversion of transportation. You might also look at the deliberate betrayal of Admiral Horthy, who had fought alongside of the Germans, but refused to let the Nazis kill Hungary's Jews, which led to Horthy's overthrow.
But again, consider the lunacy of Chairman Mao--already in power at the cost of tens of million dead Chinese--suddenly embarking on a "cultural revolution" to destroy elderly Chinese who were no threat to anyone; but were seen as intolerable, simply because they were not completely in the spirit of the Chairman's vision. Or Pol Pott in Cambodia; or the Marxist dictator of Northern Korea, today.
I have referred to this as a Compulsion For Uniformity. (And while almost all of the recent versions have been on the Left, it can also be observed in some of the seemingly irrational decision by older Conservative Governments--such as that of Louis XIV in France.)
Fanaticism certainly can morph into actual madness, I will grant you.
Well, there is that. :-))
(When did you find History Channel doing history?)
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.