Afghan war dead

kjkhoo at softhome.net kjkhoo at softhome.net
Sun Sep 15 10:39:26 PDT 2002


If these are the kinds of parallels to be drawn, one might as well go back to HG Wells who was, if anything, even more prohetic, in passage after passage, down to the kind of reaction of Americans.

Michael Pugliese wrote:
>http://www.ajc.org/InTheMedia/Publications.asp?did=503&pid=1199
>
>>...Mention of Hitler brings us back full circle to the unmistakable parallels
>between Nazism and what I have elsewhere called "Islamic fascism"-similarities
>that have emerged into sharper relief following the Twin Towers attacks of
>September 11, 2001.56 More than half a century ago, on November 18, 1947, the
>führer's closest confidant, Albert Speer, wrote the following recollection in
>his Spandau prison diary, which today sounds eerily prophetic:
>
>I recall how [Hitler] would have films shown in the Reich Chancellory about
>London burning, about the sea of fire over Warsaw, about exploding
>convoys, and
>the kind of ravenous joy that would then seize him every time. But I never saw
>him so beside himself as when, in a delirium, he pictured New York going down
>in flames. He described how the skyscrapers would be transformed into gigantic
>burning torches, how they would collapse in confusion, how the bursting city's
>reflection would stand against the dark sky.57



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