There is another problem with comparing US imperialism with the Nazis.

The assumption behind it is that the Nazis are the worst you could possibly get, a reference point of evil. They aren't. Hitler did less damage in his first 7 years in power than Bush has done in the same time, and the likely toll from US-policy-driven global climate change is going to be far worse than all the genocides of the 20th century put together, even at the very highest estimate for all of them.

And the Nazis are usually compared to US imperialism in the wrong respect. The US doesn't have an ideology calling for racial extermination - it does call for millions to die, but not after being classified by race. The US system shares a *very great deal* with the Nazi state in its political economy. Schacht's system - getting subjected nations to fund the empire by ever-increasing debt and using ever-more-expensive militarism as a central *economic* policy - is exactly what the US has been doing since since Reagan. Even if Bush had guts and a brain he couldn't reverse it now, any more than Hitler could have done.