America now is Germany then: Analogies The German people of the late 1930s imagined themselves to be brave. They saw themselves as the heroic Germans depicted by the Wagnerian Operas, the descendants of the fierce Germanic warriors who had hunted wild boar with nothing but spears and who had defeated three of Rome's mightiest legions in the Tuetenberg Forest. But in truth, by the 1930s, the German people had become civilized and tamed, culturally obsessed with fine details in both science and society. Their self-image of bravery was both salve and slavery. Germans were required to behave as if they were brave, even when they were not. Continue to read: http://community.darkconspiracy.com/viewtopic.php?p=12266#12266
Wow this is a real orginal analogy. First off its flawed in about a million ways. The first being the economic situation of the two countries being compared. A far better compairison would be the US and the Roman empire, both Republics and economically powerful with the best military in the world. Of course the Roman Empire fell, partialy because its power stretched far beyond its acutal control. Second off, compairing Hitler's intentional Genocide of 6 million Jews to what is happening with Arabs in the middle east is idiotic. Im not saying Bush is justified, Im just saying that there is no compairison. I will reconsider when the US starts rounding up the arabs and sticking them in ovens. Pumpkin Eater