After 80 years of false analogies with Hitler the shoe finally fits

Pascal Lottaz reposted

Trita Parsi

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It is difficult to fathom how people can commit truly evil acts, such as genocide and the murder of children. What is even more difficult to comprehend, is others ENJOYING and CELEBRATING images of those evil acts. But that is what you get in Israel now, with parties of people watching and cheering videos of Israel blowing up villages in Southern Lebanon.

Here is the clip.

I remember Israelis paid to watch scenes in Gaza by telescope

The inhumanity of the USA is comparable with that of the Israelis. The New York Times reports today that the Pentagon tested an experimental PRISM missile packed with 180,000 tungsten pellets on an Iranian sports hall killing 21 girls who were playing volleyball.

The American empire has its origin with Pearl Harbor and bases its legitimacy on its defeat of Hitler's Germany, Japan and much later Communist Russia, though the USSR fell apart for internal reasons.

Now, as happens to all empires even imperial China, America in trouble.

It is abandoning its heroic myth (I use the word myth to mean a sacred narrative that defines a society's core values, rather than a story that's untrue).

This is a huge mistake and sign of how decadent it is.

Hypocrisy is vice's tribute to virtue (Rochefoucauld), after all.

Without it man cannot bear too much reality (to adapt TS Eliot).

The USA didn't really have the moral high ground very much after 1991 but people, especially in the rich countries that were American clients, thought it did.

Though I remember the Daily Telegraph saying under Clinton that US foreign policy made the USA resemble the armed wing of Oxfam (a British charity that gives money to starving people).

That ain't so bad, but that was in the last century.

Do I have any readers who regret that the USA has not won its unprovoked war against Iran?

Not many, I imagine.

I expect I have some who hope who hope the USA succeeds in doing whatever it is trying to do to China.

The habit of siding with America is hard for some to break.