Former CIA director R. James Woolsey sees parallels between present-day Iran and Nazi Germany
Posted on June 3rd, 2010 by Paul Davis
Former CIA director R. James Woolsey has written an interesting piece for National Review Online in which he draws parallels between present-day Iran and Nazi Germany.
Will Obama and other world leaders respond to the Iranian threat like Winston Churchill or Neville Chamberlain?
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In fact, Iranians, who though Muslims are not Arabs, consider themselves quite superior to Arabs, and to much of the rest of humanity. Quite literally, they think of themselves as Aryan, or at least they did when A. Hitler was trumpeting Aryanism, and there is no reason to think that has changed, for “Iran” is a cognate of “Aryan” and means “Land of the Aryans.” The Iranian regime of the time was very palsy with and approving of Nazi Germany. This reprehensible part of Iran’s history is cleverly explored in Philip Kerr’s novel, “Hitler’s Peace.” Interestingly, in another Kerr novel, “The One From the Other,” he describes a real-life Arab of that same time, the grand mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin, an anti-Semite who could have given lessons in hatred to Hitler (and quite possibly did, since they met at least once.). There has never been a shortage of this kind of murderous crap in the Mideast.