Americans Have Become 'Good Germans'

I would say the responses to this very important article pretty much sums it up folks... There is far too much apathy in the country today- but who cares?

Note* - the posting of the German flag, and the phrase 'good germans' in this context seems offensive to the present day Germans - and to others. This may account for lack of responses.

If your point is the American public seems paralyzed with inaction, this seems true enough. So seem our elected representatives.

A darkness has descended upon the land. I believe this is due to a fascist agenda which is an 'assault on reason' along many fronts - primarily through the consolidated Media.

I believe, with the leadership we so badly need, we will be able to act, and will see the public at large was not as apathetic as it now seems.

We can only hope.

OMG, is the "LEFT" finally waking up to what is going on? We might just have a chance if both the "LEFT" and "RIGHT" would stop falling for the same dumb-old wedge issues every election cycle. Once folks start to realize, no matter what your color, race, religion or political party that the elite are sticking it to us every which way imaginable, then perhaps we'll start managing our own destiny.

With respect to the reference to Germans in the title of this article, perhaps interested parties should take a look at the book:

They Thought They Were Free
by Milton Mayer
http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/511928.html

From the book:

"What happened here was the gradual habituation of the people, little by little, to being governed by surprise; to receiving decisions deliberated in secret; to believing that the situation was so complicated that the government had to act on information which the people could not understand, or so dangerous that, even if the people could not understand it, it could not be released because of national security. And their sense of identification with Hitler, their trust in him, made it easier to widen this gap and reassured those who would otherwise have worried about it.

"This separation of government from people, this widening of the gap, took place so gradually and so insensibly, each step disguised (perhaps not even intentionally) as a temporary emergency measure or associated with true patriotic allegiance or with real social purposes. And all the crises and reforms (real reforms, too) so occupied the people that they did not see the slow motion underneath, of the whole process of government growing remoter and remoter.

Unless there is something wrong with militarily confronting, for the first time in history and after the murders of many innocent people, the single greatest hotbed of terrorism in the world, the Middle East, the war in Iraq is righteous. Quit whining Mr. Rich. You are Frank Rich right? Or did you just cop the opening from his column of Oct 14?

I believe Mr Dickman's comment is fascinating. Wonder if he would care to enlighten us on how he came by his views?

How does one get to a place where reason would not take you?

Vigilance, Mr Dickman. Vigilance.

Confronting a terrorist, or even a "hotbed of terrorism" would be a noble pursuit under different circumstances than what has led us into this war. By insinuating this war is anything other than a move on someone else's natural resource (oil) by this administration, as well as a scam to make tons of money in the private sector through cronyism practices is an even more egregious slap in the face of true patriotism than any negative comments this article or the above response could possibly cause. Maybe if you were to seek some counsel, or better yet, do some honest fact finding regarding this war and how we came to be where we are today Mr. Dickman (*snicker*) you would be able to have something worthwhile to add to this thread as opposed to name calling?