Ahmadinejad's Mussolini

Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been characterized many times as the 21st century's answer to Hitler.Before declaring Ahmadinejad as the 21st century's Hitler,Presidents Bill Clinton and George Bush, Prime Minister Tony Blair, as well as members of their respective candidates, declared Saddam Hussein to be the Adolf Hitler of this generation.The Hitler/Nazi Germany analogy can be a powerful indictment.Whenever it is used, stark associations flood the mind:appeasement, war, gas chambers, genocide, and the deaths of millions of people.Once we cry Hitler, all attempts at detente or diplomacy are dismissed as mere appeasement.The ghost of Hitler was invoked in a speech by former Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Nentanyahu at the General Assembly of the United Jewish Communities this month. As the Jewish Telegraphic Agency recently reported:"Netanyahu warned that Iran is aiming to develop 25 nuclear weapons a year, ultimately with a range that can reach the East Coast of the United States.“It’s 1938-and Iran is Germany.And Iran is racing to get atomic weapons,”Netanyahu repeated again and again.
“When someone tells you he is going to exterminate you, believe him and stop him.”The former prime minister said he had been trying for a decade to warn world leaders that Iran represented the greatest threat-not just to Israel but also to Europe and America-“but nobody seems to care very strongly.”While Hitler started a war and then tried to develop an atomic bomb, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is building nuclear weapons first and then will start a war, Netanyahu warned. Unlike 1938 and its aftermath, however, this time the Jewish people will not be the sacrificial lamb, Netanyahu declared to prolonged applause."Hitler was a singular evil in the pantheon of history.On many levels, his brand of evil is incomparable; any attempt to compare him to tin-pot dictators like Saddam or even Ahmadinejad tends to minimize Hitler more than it maximizes the target of such comparisons.Hitler was evil unbound-he answered to no one, was beholden to his own ideology, which was uniquely Hitlerian. A comparison between Hitler and a common thug like Saddam Hussein is like comparing AlCapone and a common car-jacker.Comparing Ahmadinejad to Hitler is similarly unsatisfactory on most levels, since, as evil as Ahmadinejad might be, he doesn't stand alone the way Hitler does.
Ahmadinejad is the product of a wider evil ideology, whereas Hitler was the founder and author of an evil without parallel in human history.Ahmadinejad's evil is replicated many times over within Islam; Hitler's evil is such that it will be replicated only once more in the course of history. Ahmadinejad's qualification as the 21st century answer to Hitler rests on the fact that Ahmadinejad is a head of state, as Hitler was a head of state.But Ahmadinejad's hatred of the Jews and his desire to wipe them from the map is rooted in the wider ideology of Islam. Ahmadinejad sees the destruction of Israel as a duty imposed on him by Islam...
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