No, tonto... I didn't 'skip' anything.
You tried to change the subject by asking if it is 'fair' to compare American servicemen to 'Nazis' (by 'compare' I suppose you meant: 'say they are the same'... the answer, of course is 'NO')... but you failed to make your question specific... Has anyone actually made such an odeous 'comparison'????
I tried to answer you originally by saying:
As to anything else: remember, it's POLITICIANS who set national policy... servicemen carry out orders.
... The point I was trying to get across was that political leaders set the policies, not servicemen... and I'd have no objections to anyone exploring comparisons or contrasting any historical political figures with present day ones at any time.
Human nature is rather unchanging (so it has been, and always will be, a factor in the world's history), and POWER is a universal characteristic of political behavior.... I think the study of Machiavelli, or Sun Tsu, or Genghis Khan, or the history of the Popes, or Lincoln, or Stalin, or Churchill, etc. can all be of value in understanding political behavior.
No honest inquiry is 'politically incorrect' to me. |
