Monday, February 5, 2007
The Democrats' biggest fan: Martin Peretz: THE MADNESS OF KING GEORGE
No, you are not seeing things. He said de-Nazification. He is not saying, in the traditional manner of liberal alarmists, that the United States is now where Weimar Germany was. He is saying that the United States is now where Germany after Weimar was. Even for Davos, this was stupid. Actually, worse than stupid. There is a historical analysis, a moral claim, in Soros's word. He believes that the United States is now a Nazi country. Why else would we have to go through a "certain de-Nazification process"? I defy anybody to interpret the remark differently. The analogy between Bush's America and Hitler's Germany is not fleshed out, and one is left wondering how far he would take it. Is Bush like Hitler? If it is "de-Nazification" that we need, then in some sense Bush must be like Hitler. Was the invasion of Iraq like the invasion of Poland? Perhaps. The more one lingers over Soros's word, the more one's eyes pop from one's head...
Here's the guy who wants to start a Leftist "alternative" to AIPAC. Read it all.
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You sure it's not free subscription or something?
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Soros seems to command a lot of attention because he has money. He seems to think that because he was brilliant in once sphere--finance--he is brilliant in other spheres as well. In effect, there is something very anti-democratic about this attitude, as if his views should count more because he has the funds to act on them.
Of course, he would answer that he has the perfect right to speak out, that it's a proper thing to use one's money to achieve some good in the world. But he has tons of money, and he'll be using it for what he thinks is some good in the world--a totally different matter.
A limitless bank account (and ego) empowering a limited intellect. Not a good combination.