Ah, yes, the legendary suicidal leader who has power enough to prod his whole nation into annihilation without getting deposed. I really wish Americans wouldn't base foreign policy decisions on second rate fantasy novels. Mind, I grant you that dehumanizing the enemy/all foreigners has always been a standard war propaganda method among all human nations in history. You know, crap like Sting's

"I hope the Russians love their children, too."

Yes, the Soviet Russians loved their children and in turn told them horror stories about inhuman capitalists who were plotting to wipe out life on Earth...

Tss. You know, the thing people have about Godwining threads is that comparing Nazi institutions to modern ones trivialises a system that caused a world war and directly killed 6 million Jews, 250,000 Romany people, thousands of homosexuals, mental patients, mentally handicapped persons and opposition figures. While certain innovations of the Bush administration make its propaganda abroad about human rights and freedom look silly (various dictators have taken to quoting Bush phrases when justifying atrocities), comparing these is obscene.
Yes, it does feel more comfortable to laugh at the Nazis, but our refusal to take this universal taint of the human character seriously has already led to unchecked massacres in Cambodia under Pol Pot, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur, to name but a few.
Oh, and the various aspects of Jim Crow caused a lot more death and suffering in America than any present measures. Israel exists today, because in 1945, the world's Jews had reason to believe that there was no nation on Earth where they could feel safe.
Read some history and gain some perspective, okay?

The peculiar thing about this story is that you are talking about CryptoAG in present tense. Yet again we learn that having one's integrity utterly compromised means nothing in the business world! Why would anybody buy a cryptographic product that does not encrypt properly? "We did it because they had shiny brochures." "We bought CryptoAG because the Americans promised us that only they and the Germans would be reading our communications." Insane.
Oh well, I still use clear e-mail for all business. In a world where nobody trusts anybody nobody gets anything done.

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