Word: hitlered
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...bashing jive. Eminem is as yet no actor; he recedes into sullenness, and his intimate scenes with the smart, tarty Brittany Murphy lack juice. But the guy has a face for movies. He's Tobey Maguire with 'tude. When Toronto movies couldn't find heroes, they searched for villains. Hitler, for instance: a documentary (Blind Spot: Hitler's Secretary) and a fiction film (Max, about a Jewish art dealer who befriended young Adolf the aspiring painter) plumbed the cinema's inexhaustible fascination with Mr. Bad. And when you can't blame one person, blame the culture. Among the festival...
...only vindicated him and contradicted themselves: Far from silencing the opposition, Summers has ignited debate on a sensitive but vital topic. In a year when the administration of San Francisco State University stood idly by while pro-Israel demonstrators were surrounded and subjected to chants of “Hitler did not finish the job,” it would be remiss for the president of any university not to comment on latent anti-Semitism in American higher education. That Summers is thus far the only university president to speak publicly on the subject is alarming...
Second, because we often need such dictators to win the larger struggle against a global threat to liberty--Nazism, communism, Islamic radicalism. Did we not, after all, join with Stalin, one of the great monsters of the 20th century, in order to defeat Hitler? Does anyone doubt not just the necessity but the morality of that alliance? It is the principle of the lesser evil. As Churchill once famously said, "If I were told that the devil were on poorer terms with Hitler, I should find myself making an alliance with hell...
Alliance with hell is justified as long as it is temporary. When Hitler was defeated, we stopped coddling Stalin. Forty years later, as communism ebbed, the U.S. helped overthrow Marcos and ease out Pinochet. We withdrew our support for those dictators once the two conditions that justify such alliances had disappeared: the global Soviet threat had receded and a domestic democratic alternative had emerged...
...ultimate test of American foreign policy is a question of its rightness, not of the process by which it was formed. Communities can make mistakes and individuals act rightly. The decision to appease Hitler by abandoning Czechoslovakia in 1938 was arrived at by international consensus; it was as multilateral—and as wrongheaded—as one could hope. On the other hand it is hardly likely that, if the United States had decided to halt genocide in Rwanda through police-keeping action, that policy would have been spat upon as “unilateral...