New Orleans is under water. Biloxi is trashed. Gulfport is gone. Scores of people are dead, tens of thousands homeless as a result of Hurricane Katrina. And where is our president? Here in San Diego, rehearsing a speech he plans to give at North Island Naval Base. His topic? Not the unprecedented destruction and human misery ongoing in the Gulf of Mexico, but a rallying cry for his increasingly unpopular jihad in the Gulf of Arabia. Advance reports indicate he actually plans to compare the "global war on terrorism" to World War II.
This development has reminded me of a pithy quote, which I think offers particular insight into our current national climate:
"Naturally, the common people don't want war, but they can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. Tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and endangering the country. It works the same in every country."
Herman Goering
Reichsmarschall, Third Reich
At the Nuremberg Trials
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