Presidential hopeful H-Rod says that “George Bush’s faulty and offensive historical analogies aren’t going to end the war in Iraq,” in response to the Fearmonger in Chief’s latest assertions:

President Bush compared Congress’ Democratic leaders Thursday to people who ignored the rise of Lenin and Hitler early in the last century, saying “the world paid a terrible price” then and risks similar consequences for inaction today.

Indeed, Bush’s statement is “faulty and offensive.” Lenin and Hitler were leaders of military and industrial superpowers. Bin Laden, and what’s-his-dick in Iran command no such military, industrial or economic might, despite sharing similar goals of hegemony and anti-Semitism.

But it’s also important to note that a general policy of appeasement, and ignorance of Keynes’ warnings in “Consequences” (especially with regards to Hitler) were the west’s primary undoings in the earlier part of the previous century. Communism’s internal flaws especially with regards to the whole “impossibility of economic calculation” doomed the system from the get-go, although it is fruitless to speculate as to what exactly might’ve befallen the Soviets were it not for the west’s alliance with them against Germany — itself a necessary and unfortunate byproduct of mistakenly appeasing Hitler. Until Ahmadinejad starts annexing parts of neighboring countries, or until Bin Laden commands an military-industrial superpower, I can’t take this sort of crisis-creating seriously.

History has shown time and time again, that the more a nation involves itself in war, the less free its own citizens become as they are enslaved piecemeal into the war machine of the State.