I agree with pretty much everything said about the parallels between Germany in the '30s and Iran right now.
That also reminds me of something former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said recently in a speech he gave over here in the US, basically he related a story about meeting a Holocaust survivor and asking him what the biggest lesson the world should have learned from that period was, and the old man said,"When someone says they're going to exterminate you, you should believe them."
That's a pretty simple lesson you'd think, but a lot of people don't want to believe that Iran is serious because we're living in the 21st Century and we're all oh-so-civilized. But the thing is Baggygreen's got it right, we're not so very civilized afterall and such things could definately happen again. The naive belief that a war of extermination could never happen again only makes it even more likely, and perhaps even inevitable unless the world stands up and realises that sometimes people really do mean what they say...even if it's something you really don't want to hear or doesn't fit in with your own view of the modern world.
As for this part...
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Originally Posted by baggygreen
Hands up who wants to be the new neville chamberlain???
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My money's on these folks.
