Now, as to the true masters of "evil banality":
Curtis LeMays' airborne killing machines, flying low over Tokyo on the night of March 9th-10th, 1945, exterminated a greater volume of human beings per hour than ever before or ever since, in the single greatest atrocity in human history. And they did it deploying:
1) A racist white supremacist ideology sufficient to dehumanize the victims in preparation for the slaughter; 2) Malice aforethought, as LeMays' military planners consciously, systematically and deliberately plotted their bombers' flight paths and bombing targets over residential districts in one of the most densely populated cities in the world; 3) The latest technology in the form of the B-29 and napalm in mass quantities, by which they openly expressed satisfaction that a city whose residential areas consisted mostly of paper and wood was an ideal target, thereby revealing their intent to create a maximum holocaust in the most literal sense of the word.
The only difference is that they were never brought to account for their atrocious crimes. But they were - and are - far more efficient than Auschwitz ever was.
-Brad Mayer
At 06:49 PM 6/26/01 -0400, you wrote:
>There is no doubt that the nation
>whose foreign policy in the last 50 years has most resembled (in fact
>has gone beyond) that of Hitler's Germany is the United States. And from
>the perspective of the world's peoples, the U.S. is also undoubtedly a
>far greater threat than ever Hitler was. And at least Hitler's
>apologists did not rebuke (say) the French Resistance as criminally
>violent, as David McReynolds has recently done in reference to the
>Palestinians fighting the genocidal policies of Israel.
>
>Carrol