Professor Clyde Wilson, Professor Emeritus of History, University of South Carolina writes.
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Monday, October 16, 2006
The Way We Are Now IX
Alas! it is delusion all;
The future cheats us from afar,
Nor can we be what we recall,
Nor dare we think on what we are.
—Lord Byron
Several writebackers on this website have taken to task Dr. Paul Craig Roberts for his blistering columns on the transgressions of President Littlebush and his neocon handlers.
In particular they have objected to likening of the Neocons to Nazis as exaggerated and counterproductive. It strikes me that, if one looks at early Nazism and at the historical record of the incremental nature of tyranny, Roberts’s point is apt and his vehement tone useful in waking up the complacent. We know that bad men have their way when good men remain unmotivated. Read the rest of this superb article
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