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To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (3037)	9/1/2001 2:34:17 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 23908

Turkey's economy looks like great shakes -- if you compare it to Russia's economy, which has been steadily contracting for 10 years. Turkey's problems are short-term, the macro-trend is still up, simply because Nature abhors a vacuum. As for your little rewrite of Hitler's career, I suggest you check your history books. Hitler definitely did not want a "corporate Germany" with satellite states and "proper legislation" (whatever that means). He wanted a thousand year reich, and his policies were based on an economic ponzi scheme -- each new conquest paid for the last conquest. War was essential to his plans. Fascism was necessary because it readied the people for war. Scapegoating the Jews was necessary because it taught the people to blame all their troubles on external "enemies of the reich", and to deal ruthlessly with them. None of this behavior resembles your hypothetical "neo-fascist" who want a pre-eminent "corporate Germany". As far as I can tell, you apply the label "neo-fascist" towards any politician who wants his country to become more powerful relative to other countries, whether by peace or war, democracy or totalitarianism. Since that includes almost everybody, it's hard to ascribe any meaning to the term. Nor do I see any reason that another Hitler would choose different methods today. We just saw 10 years of Milosevic's career -- tell me, what was so different about his methods?