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2008-05-20 Home Front: Politix

Defending Obama by defending . . . Hitler???

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Posted by Mike 2008-05-20 08:22|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 Told ya yesterday I heard the pattern of Jackboots in the messianic treatment of Obama by the press and his devout followers.

Its easy to see where these morons are trying to lead.

Posted by OldSpook 2008-05-20 09:23|| 2008-05-20 09:23|| Front Page Top

#2 Hitler was a "progressive" too.
Socalists killed more people than anyone on this planet.

Posted by newc">newc 2008-05-20 09:37|| 2008-05-20 09:37|| Front Page Top

#3 isnt calling 1938 appeasement reasonable actually a knock on Obama? IE, his policy appears reasonable, (like appeasement in 1938) but could ultimately lead to disaster?

Wouldnt a defense of Obama have to show that appeasement did NOT look reasonable in 1938, to contrast it with Obamas proposed negotiations today?

(BTW, theres at least one historian Overy, who holds that Chamberlin gets a bum rap - he was appeasing only to buy time for UKs military buildup, esp air defense, he didnt really believe Hitler was reasonable - of course Chamberlin was still mistaken, cause Germanys internal situation meant that if hitler failed on the Sudetenland he might have been overthrown by the Wehrmacht, but Chamberlin had no way of knowing that)

Posted by liberalhawk 2008-05-20 10:09|| 2008-05-20 10:09|| Front Page Top

#4 Chamberlain may not have known about the Wehrmacht plans (even now not everybody agrees on what would have happened); however he surely knew how strong the Czech fortifications were in the Sudetenland (somebody who was in my Synagogue, now deceased, was, according to his recollection to me, in the Czech army at the time and stationed at one of the key points of the defense line ) and, thus, how devastating it would be to give it up without a fight.

Chamberlain also would have known that in 1938, the Germans were building tanks and planes like crazy. I'll grant he may not have realized the magnitude but he surely knew that between Munich and a year from then that the Nazis would be much stronger.

Posted by mhw 2008-05-20 15:22|| 2008-05-20 15:22|| Front Page Top

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