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We were lucky with Hitler. We may not be so lucky again.

Some luck. Only how many millions dead?

I have to wonder about someone who can write a sentence like that. It calls his judgement into question.

[HarryKnutszacke]

Americans do not succumb to horror. We only pay lip service to doing so. No extremist minority has ever held a majority in subjugation here, as is the case in Afghanistan, because of our own will to revolt. That is our genetic legacy: this country has selected for a population that would not put up with the status quo in it's native lands. We will do what is necessary to survive, though we may couch it in pretty sentiments, just as our food droppings to Afghanistan were more for public consumption than for human consumption. Pure evil is its own undoing because, at its core, lies insanity. Thus Hitler's megalomania, and Bin Laden's miscalculation of his enemy. Saddam Hussein is far more threaghtening because he is not insane. He administers his ruthlessness with great calculation, and he is the cornerstone that must be crushed.