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Finally, all the talk about the Serb forces controlling the hilltops like latter-day Chetniks implies an invidious comparison between what the Nazis were trying to do in the 1940s and what the United Nations ought to be doing today. Hitler was bent on conquering Yugoslavia, while the West should be saving the remnants of that country from the consequences of the end of communism...
...session, RNC officials told students that when they gestured for Bush to have "Four More Years" in office, they should wave side to side, not forward and back as they had been doing. Forward and back, college Republicans were told, looked a little too much like the "Heil Hitler gesture...
...acute. Skeletal figures behind barbed wire. Murdered babies in a bus. Two and a half million people driven from their homes in an orgy of "ethnic cleansing." Detention camps, maybe even concentration camps. Surely these pictures and stories come from another time -- the Dark Ages, the Thirty Years' War, Hitler's heyday. Psychic defenses struggle to minimize, to deny, to forget. Not here; not now. Europeans were supposed to have learned from the last terrible war on their soil not to murder their neighbors. Educated people, on the verge of the 21st century, in a relatively prosperous country that...
...ghastly images in newspapers and on television screens last week also conjured up another discomfiting memory: the world sitting by, eager for peace at any price, as Adolf Hitler marched into Austria, carved up Czechoslovakia. ! For months, leaders in Europe and the U.S. have been wringing their hands over the human tragedy in the Balkans, yet have shied away from facing the hard choices that any effort to stop the killing would entail. Clearly, there is no simple solution, diplomatic or military. Economic sanctions, mediation and U.N. peacekeepers have been tried without stopping the fighting. No case for armed intervention...
...Saddam has his uses for Bush. The U.S. President tried to drum up political support during the 1990 midterm elections by demonizing Saddam as "worse than Hitler," and has sought to take advantage of the latest confrontation. During the Agriculture Ministry dispute, the White House released photos of midnight strategy sessions held by the President and his advisers, thus reminding voters whose steady hand steers the ship of state...