Is this a nostalgia for Nazi era Germany? Or a desire to create great edifices that the rulers can brag about?
Here is a post on this with editorial comment by Alan with a look at the similarity of Obama’s and Khomeini’s “control” activities.
http://noiri.blogspot.com/2010/11/obamas-million-man-police-state-has.html
And this matter may be coming back with a vengeance now that Obama’s policy popularity has tanked.
http://noiri.blogspot.com/2010/11/supreme-court-confers-on-obama.html
This is one of the best links I have found in the past ten years.
http://www.crossroad.to/text/articles/hab2.html
It’s about control and limiting power to themselves.