Actually, no. A lot of frightened people point at Hitler, but I don't go there. I think that it's actually a new burgeoning age of McCarthyism and a third Red Scare, only with a different target this time.
Hawks were searching for quite some time for a new enemy (it was going to be China for a while), and Osama bin Laden provided it for them with a red-ribboned box. Now I'm hearing things like "appeasers" and seeing jingoism again and it's all very historical, except that it's current, and that really sucks.
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Date: 2004-12-17 03:21 pm (UTC)Hawks were searching for quite some time for a new enemy (it was going to be China for a while), and Osama bin Laden provided it for them with a red-ribboned box. Now I'm hearing things like "appeasers" and seeing jingoism again and it's all very historical, except that it's current, and that really sucks.