by Ana Marie Cox
Rumsfeld gave an endearingly retro anti "blame America first crowd" speech yesterday. VERY 2004, right down to a Hitler reference!
Someone recently recalled one U.S. Senator’s reaction in September 1939, upon hearing that Hitler had invaded Poland to start World War II. He exclaimed:
"Lord, if only I could have talked with Hitler, all this might have been avoided."
Think of that!
I recount this history because once again we face the same kind of challenges in efforts to confront the rising threat of a new type of fascism.
Also? The first rule of fight club is to never question fight club!
Any moral or intellectual confusion about who and what is right or wrong can weaken the ability of free societies to persevere.
In other words, if you have to ask whether we should torture terrorists, the terrorists have already won.
The Dish 