2 septembre<\/a> : <\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00ab The most noticeable new element in the speeches of Cheney, Rumsfeld and Bush is the attempt to make a direct amalgam between the various nationalist, Islamic and terrorist groups which are now in conflict with US foreign policy and 20th century fascism. This was spelled out most explicitly in Rumsfeld’s speech, which portrayed opponents of the current war in Iraq as the political and moral equivalents of Neville Chamberlain, the British prime minister of the mid-1930s who advocated a policy of appeasement toward Hitler.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bb Such analogies rely on the abysmal lack of historical knowledge fostered by the US educational system, the mass media, and both major US political parties. Rumsfeld is standing reality on its head. German fascism was the regime of an imperialist state, the most powerful and industrially advanced country in Europe, with a ruling class that aspired to dominate the continent and ultimately the world. The Islamic jihadist elements originate in countries long historically oppressed by imperialism, first as colonies of Britain, France and other European powers, then as either clients or targets of the United States, the dominant imperialist power in the world.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bb The country that today most clearly exemplifies the foreign policy aims and methods of Nazi Germany is Bush’s United States. The hallmarks of the world crisis of the 1930s have indeed reemerged in 2006: rampant militarism, with powerful nations invading and occupying smaller and weaker ones; brazen defiance of international law by big powers that feel themselves able to use military force with impunity; the adoption of the method of the Big Lie, employing propaganda broadcast through the mass media to manipulate popular consciousness; the creation of a pervasive atmosphere of fear, to justify domestic repression and violence against minorities that are singled out for demonization; the use of state-engineered or manipulated provocations (the Reichstag Fire, 9\/11) to stampede public opinion behind the use of dictatorial methods.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bb Despite all the differences in political methods and historical conditions, there is one overriding similarity between Hitler’s Germany and Bush’s America. In both cases, the capitalist ruling elite has entrusted power to a reckless and unstable regime whose goal is to upset the existing structure of international relations and reshape it to serve its own national purposes. Hitler’s Drang nach Osten (drive to the east) has its counterpart in Bush’s drive to the Middle East: what began as an invasion of Afghanistan, allegedly in response to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 has become an American effort to subdue the entire region, from the Mediterranean Coast to the furthest reaches of Central Asia, and assure American domination of its vast oil and gas resources.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bb That there is an element of madness in such a policy does not mean that Bush & Co. will not attempt to carry it out. Hitler’s policy was certainly mad, and deliberately plunged German imperialism into the two-front war which all previous German rulers had sought to avoid. Bush likewise spurns the counsel of the foreign policy mandarins, not only of previous Democratic presidents, but of his own father’s administration.<\/em> \u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tOn gardera \u00e0 l’esprit l’\u00e9volution s\u00e9mantique, effectivement n\u00e9e des exc\u00e8s de la communication. La comparaison Bush-Hitler \u00e9tait impensable tant que la r\u00e9f\u00e9rence en appelait implicitement \u00e0 l’aspect int\u00e9rieur de la politique nazie en Allemagne. C’est l\u00e0 que l’aspect du sacril\u00e8ge faisait sentir ses effets, agissant comme l’habituel r\u00e9flexe de censure par moralisation qui caract\u00e9rise notre \u00e9trange libert\u00e9 de pens\u00e9e. D\u00e8s lors que la comparaison s’est d\u00e9plac\u00e9e vers le champ de la politique ext\u00e9rieure, l’analogie est devenue moins sacril\u00e8ge. C’est le cas avec la r\u00e9flexion de WSWS.org<\/em>. L’on voit effectivement que la r\u00e9f\u00e9rence de la politique ext\u00e9rieure, qui est pleinement d\u00e9velopp\u00e9e, n’interdit plus une comparaison int\u00e9rieure. Les attaques grotesques de Bush & compagnie font le reste en imposant la r\u00e9f\u00e9rence nazie pour un groupe am\u00e9ricaniste : puisque cette r\u00e9f\u00e9rence est l\u00e0, voyons pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment \u00e0 quel groupe elle correspond.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\tMis en ligne le 3 septembre 2006 \u00e0 06H13<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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