America=Nazi Germany- Mick Wallace

Einhard wrote: »

I know that there is a fairly vicious undercurent of anti-Americanism amongst the intellegensia, and other elements of the Left in Ireland, and in Europe in general, but generally speaking, it is expressed diplomatically, and through equivocation, rather than just expressed openly.

Tonight Mick Wallace brought it right out into the open. Over the past few days, there have been attempts in certain quarters of the Irish media, and politics, to portray the killing of Osama bin Laden as a great wrong, as another dark mark against America. This reaction wasn't all that surprising.

However, a few moments ago on Vincent Brown, Mick Wallace stated openly, that the actions of Nazi Germany as a superpower, weren't any different to those of America. This is a shocking allegation, and betrays the deep hatred of America that festers in certain sectors of Irish and European thought. It's despicable, and offensive.

America is far from perfect. Her actions in South America in the 70s and 80s were outrageous; her intervention in SE Asia no better. However, in comparison to every other superpower through history, America has been a relative model of probity. After WWII, as the USSR hoovered up the shattered remains of Eastern Europe, and incorporated then within her grim empire, America not only withdrew from the West, but encouraged growth and both economic and democratic development through Marshall Aid. At the same time, America was establishing the basis for a free and democratic Japan.

Indeed, after WWII, America was the sole possessor of the most potent weapon ever created. The world was, quite literaly, hers to do with as she pleased. Nothing could have stood in her way, had she chosen to turn her nuclear weapons against other countries. She did nothing. She helped Europe, and Japan. The thought of either Nazin Germany, or Soviet Russia having sole control over such a weapon is terrifying. We can be damn sure that neither power would have been hesitant in using it.

That's not even to mention the murder of at least 6 million civilians by the Nazis, the brutalisation of much of Europe, the plunder and pillage and rape that inevitably followed Blitzkreig, the supression of all dissent and forms of free speech, the destruction of democratic means...

And yet, that blathering, barely coherent, idiot of a TD equates the Nazis of Auschwitz and the death camps, with the democratic America. It's an outrageous slur, and an embarassing accusation, and as an Irish person who, whilst acknowledging the flaws of America, is damn glad of her existence, I totally repudiate Wallace's uninformed and despicable comparison. He should be ashamed of himself.