Word: hitlering
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...years the British Royal Family has meted out attractive photos of Princes William and Harry riding polo ponies and visiting AIDS orphans, but that hasn't stopped photographers from snapping the young men drinking, nuzzling bikini-clad would-be princesses in Ibiza and, in Harry's case, impersonating Hitler at a costume party...
...propose Nyhan's corollary: As a foreign policy debate with conservatives grows longer, the probability of a comparison with the appeasement of Nazis or Hitler approaches inevitability...
...boost support for the increasingly unpopular war in Iraq. But the rhetoric is familiar: an attempt to raise the specter of appeasement, starting with Donald Rumsfeld's speech to the American Legion Tuesday, in which he quoted Sen. William Borah saying "Lord, if only I had talked to Hitler, all of this might have been avoided!" after hearing of Germany's invasion of Poland in 1939. (Meanwhile, Rumsfeld barely mentioned Iraq until the last 500 words of the speech.) And today, in his speech to the Legion, President Bush described Islamic terrorists as the "successors to Fascists, to Nazis...
...Hitler analogies are, of course, generally bad for democratic debate. They tend to stifle rational thought, paint one's opponents as Nazi sympathizers and appeasers, and reduce the complexity of foreign policy to a simplistic appease/don't appease framework...
...administration ally. He is the probable source of Rumsfeld's quote, having used it in his August 11 newspaper column about Iran. In doing so, he joined what writer Ross Douthat calls the growing number of conservatives who see "Iran's march toward nuclear power" as "the equivalent of Hitler's 1930s brinkmanship." And a Nexis search reveals that Krauthammer tends to see Hitler analogies everywhere - he trotted out the same Borah quote to denounce the alleged appeasement of China in 1989 and North Korea...