SMEARING THE GERMANS
Pro-war political correctness: if you're for peace, you must be 'anti-Semitic'

The comment by the German Minister of Justice that President Bush was focusing on Iraq to divert attention from domestic problems – "That's a popular method. Even Hitler did that" – came in the midst of an all-out propaganda offensive by the War Party to paint the antiwar opposition as "anti-Semitic." On the nation's campuses, a new "watchdog" group, Campus Watch, has been set up by Israel's most vocal supporters to "monitor" our universities for evidence of anti-Semitism. The neocon's favorite Ivy Leaguer, Harvard President Lawrence Summers, has declared that anti-Semitism is on the rise, not only throughout Europe and the Middle East, but also in the U.S. In an ironic dramatization of the (once) conservative view that foreign aid is bad because it may some day come back to haunt us, Israel's amen corner in the U.S. has launched a slick television ad campaign, intent on prettifying the Jewish state's increasingly ugly policy of naked aggression and ethnic cleansing. (Hey, I hope you enjoy the ads, because you're paying for them!)

The timing of the German controversy couldn't have been better, as far as the War Party is concerned, and Condi Rice was quick to snarl back at Berlin:

"The reported statements by the interior minister, even if half of what was reported was said, are simply unacceptable. How can you use the name Hitler and the name of the president of the US in the same sentence? Particularly how can a German, given the devotion of the US in the liberation of Germany from Hitler?"

Condi's unspoken assumption is that Germans are forever to be deemed morally inferior and incapable of judging their betters, namely the United States. After all, we "liberated" them – after handing over half the country (and half of Europe) to the Communists. The loopy thesis of Daniel Goldhagen, that permanently banishes the entire German race to a kind of moral purgatory, is rejected by many Zionists and most Jews, but eagerly embraced by a top U.S. official. If not for Condi's genuinely bigoted obtuseness, she might see the rather obvious truth that the Germans are certainly well-qualified to warn us of the dangers attendant to Hitlerism.