The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #120320   Message #2623356
Posted By: Little Hawk
02-May-09 - 09:48 PM
Thread Name: BS: Obama and torture
Subject: RE: BS: Obama and torture
Number 6, you are being emotionally overwrought and quite naive to say of Hitler "I don`t think Hitler ever had a rational thought." It's wishful thinking on your part, based on your extreme dislike of the man (needess to say).

Yes, I know you enjoy venting your spleen over Hitler, many do, but I am sure he had, like any other person, a great many rational thoughts, specially when things were going his way. He was a canny and very capable politician who bit off more than he could chew in the end...and that's when he experienced mental breakdown.

You should not allow sheer hatred of the man to cause you to compose convenient mythology just so you can enjoy your own anger.

Hitler was a clever and capable man in a number of ways. He would not have been successful in the first place if he was incapable of rational thought. He would have accomplised absolutely nothing, led no one, commanded no position, and would undoubtedly have been confined in a mental ward at an early age, rather than leading a political movement and a nation.

I say this not to defend Hitler in any way. I don't wish to defend him. I simply say it to remind you that grossly unrealistic hyperbole about people you hate remains grossly unrealistic hyperbole regardless of who those people are.