Re: Similarities: Contemporary US and WWII Germany

I don't agree with you that what Iraq really needs is assistance from the UN, the IMF and the WB.   The World Bank acts as an international pawn shop.  The wealthy, western nations providing the loans,  the economically distressed countries of the Third World losing their national patrimony in the bargain;  with the IMF dictating the internal economic and social policies thereafter.   The UN allowed more than one million Iraqi children to die under a harsh sanction policy.  Most nations of the world weren't even interested in having Kofi Annan as head of the UN.  Most nations of the world wanted to see Boutrous-Boutrous Gali Gali remain in that position but the US held sway.  Not very democratic.  With regards to Germany,  the point that I am trying to make is that the Third Reich was driven by a military / industrial complex not unlike that in operation in the US today.  War is a core industrial, economic and political phenomenon for the US.  If we had not declared war on international terrorism we would be having a major face off with the Chinese over Taiwan.  We find one enemy at a time,   trying not to break off more than we can chew so that we do not repeat the mistakes of Napoleon or Hitler and find our selves fighting on too many fronts at once.   I personally do not see how the US will survive with an antagonistic mentality.   When the Bush administration threatened to use violence against the Taliban if they refused to grant US oil firms concessions to allow a pipeline across their desert,  the result was the destruction on US soil on September 11, 2001.  Sure,  the US now has it's man in Kabul,  a former UNOCAL oil company salesman,
but look at the costs we are now incurring.