Domingo Soto: Because Freedom Isn't Dumb

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Emeritus professor of European history at Columbia University Fritz Stern has compared the similarities between the path taken by Germany in the years leading up to Hitler and the path being taken by the United States today. While not suggesting an equivalence between President Bush and Hitler, Stern's more subtle critique is that contemporary American politics exhibit something like the strident militancy and political ineptitude of the Kaiser’s pre-1914 imperial Germany.
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