Jeebus, give it a rest

There are obviously many things more offensive than constantly comparing whatever regime we don't like to the Nazi's, but that does not make it inoffensive.

And the benchwarmers of the intersection of "I Wanna Be Churchill Street" & "Ain't too Proud to Not Serve Avenue" are definitely ratcheting up the disgust-o-meter, with a period of gratuitous and stupid (do they have a different mode?) Michael Moore bashing tossed in:

IRAN AND 1930s Europe [Mario Loyola]
The difference between Iran and Nazi Germany is one of degree but not of kind — strategically speaking. Let's remember that nobody knew in 1938 (not even most Nazis) that the Holocaust was coming. And yet all that was horrifying about the Nazis was plainly visible during their opposition period in the late 1920s and early 1930s, during which time their propaganda message was not much more objectionable than that of Michael Moore — and not really all that different (By the way, I firmly believe that all the similarities between Farenheit 9/11 and Nazi propaganda of the opposition period are purely accidental — I can't believe he would have plagiarized the Nazis intentionally)...

Churchill understood, as so many pseudo-pacifists did not, that allowing Germany to alter the status quo in a way that gave it a huge offensive advantage guaranteed that the Nazis would attack when they were ready. He understood that the last moment for effective self-defense was Munich in 1938—when there was no imminent attack. The choice was preemption or appeasement.

And likewise the choice Bush faces now. Waiting until an attack might be imminent is suicide. If Iran wants nuclear technology, they need to go about getting it in a way that the international community will consider safe. Otherwise, we must understand Iran's current violations of applicable Security Council resolutions as acts of aggression, which is what Germany's diplomacy was during the 1930s. And we should responsd accordingly.

The MOST dangerous group of people in the world right now, because they have both the aspirations and the means of acting are people who might get Bush's accustically resonant ear, like the bomb Iran crowd.

If there is a more imbecilic comparison between the Nazi's and Iran, I don't know what the hell it is -- at least when Bush I made the almost as imbecilic comparison of Saddam = Hitler you had a dictatorship in place.