Reply #7: Goldberg himself is a good example [View All]

[Cocoa]

of why the talk of Nazis is good. I find most of this talk extremely annoying, just because it's so exaggerated, but Goldberg is exaggerating too by making too much out of it. If it were historians talking this way, I'd be with him, but it's not. It's amateurs, and their talk isn't hurting anyone. Some people go along with it, and a lot of people just ignore it.

But it's important that they're allowed to talk like this, because it means we're being vigilant, because if people like Goldberg had their way, the U.S. actually would be like Nazi Germany. I don't know if the following quote is technically fascist, but it sounds close enough:

http://www.nationalreview.com/goldberg/goldberg042302.asp

Well, I've long been an admirer of, if not a full-fledged subscriber to, what I call the "Ledeen Doctrine." I'm not sure my friend Michael Ledeen will thank me for ascribing authorship to him and he may have only been semi-serious when he crafted it, but here is the bedrock tenet of the Ledeen Doctrine in more or less his own words: "Every ten years or so, the United States needs to pick up some small crappy little country and throw it against the wall, just to show the world we mean business." That's at least how I remember Michael phrasing it at a speech at the American Enterprise Institute about a decade ago (Ledeen is one of the most entertaining public speakers I've ever heard, by the way).