13 January 2006 11:31

[In]Tolerance

It's all been said.

The multilayered irony of Tolerance has been so thoroughly and lucidly argued, and by some truly brilliant minds. But as that old saying goes, "nobody ever told anybody anything." I guess that's why, while the French "bristle" at even the mention of sanctions, and the Germans - who have some experience with xenophobic aggression themselves - continue dragging their feet...we get this.

Iran To Hang Teenage Girl Attacked By Rapists

At least the British seem to have longer memories.

No, i'm not pretending one can truly compare Iran to prewar Nazi Germany. (No; Germany in 1939 was much more fully prepared for war.) Neither do i understand how anyone can believe it's a good solution to run around invading - unilaterally or no - every country that ever rattles a saber. Some experts still think it could be ten years before Iran has a really good bomb factory going in any case. If nuclear weapons, that is, were really even the issue.

No, if you read that article, i would challenge you with this: Prove to me that Neville Chamberlain was not an even greater calamity for the human race than was Adolf Hitler.

I'm not sure that you can.


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