Word: hitleritis
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...wars are always mythologized, even as they're being waged, and that can often distort their meaning in the popular imagination. Ask American high school kids today about the reasons for World War II, and they'll probably tell you it had something to do with Hitler and the Jews. (In fact, the fate of the Jews under the Third Reich had no bearing whatsoever on the strategic decision-making of both Hitler and his Allied foes throughout...
...Baghdad" - whereas the U.S. had been happy to supply him with weapons and intelligence for his war against Iran in the 1980s, Saddam's invasion of Kuwait prompted President Bush to suddenly recognize him for the thug he'd always been, and begin painting him as a latter-day Hitler who had "invaded a small and helpless nation" and then "raped, pillaged and plundered...
...Hitler's ghost...
...element in mobilizing Americans was the invoking of Hitler's ghost, and the idea of the Butcher of Baghdad on the march terrorizing his neighbors. Americans hate a bully, and many of them are willing to step in when they see one beating up on weaker people. And it's those instincts that have to be tapped whenever the nation?s leaders choose to make...
...nuclear disarmament was overshadowed by a 1991 Senate reprimand for his involvement in the savings and loan scandals; in Los Altos Hills, Calif. After an early career as a journalist, Cranston returned to the U.S. from Europe and was appalled in 1939 to find sanitized English versions of Hitler's Mein Kampf; he translated his own, unvarnished edition, prompting Hitler's publisher to sue to stop sales...