The poster of this thread is correct in every particular. You dismiss the parallels between arafat and hitler, if I read you correctly, not because the intellectual premise is flawed, but because you abhor the notion of US troops going to the aid of Israel. Your fear is well founded, but ill placed.
It is not intellectually sound to wave your hands and dismiss the self evident truth that arafat is a tyrranical mass murderer. Hitler is a hero to arafat and his ilk, they are his ideological children. We know them as such by their idolizing of hitler and by their perfect conformance to every nazi outrage in their current pattern and practice.
The subtext of your rejection of obvious truth is an ardent desire to avoid war.
As disturbing as the perfect fidelity of the comparison of hitler and arafat is, it is even more disturbing to note how widespread and pervasive denial of this reality is in the world, and in American popular opinion.
This, too is eerily reminiscent of the rise of naziism and the utter failure of the free world to confront hitler when we had the chance to.
Instead, free peoples, being averse, understandably, to war, chose to intellectualize about hitler's grievances, and strove to forestall the gathering winds of war by placating the Beast.
But the Chamberlains of the world, history adamantly concludes, merely encouraged the spread of virulent evil. History teaches with no ambiguity whatsoever that failure to confront evil is incalculably more costly in terms of the destruction of human lives than confronting evil head on.
Your arguments conjur an image of Colin Powell returning from Israel waving a sheet of paper about, crowing that he has secured "peace in our time".
Oh, really?