Godwin’s Corollary: In War Debates, the Probability of Hawks Invoking Hitler Approaches One
Hawks are constantly drawing dubious comparisons to World War II, the “good war,” in order to pressure Americans into initiating other wars nothing like it.
For hawks, it is always 1938.
But as Michael Hirsh writes in National Journal, “Bashar al-Assad, a tinpot dictator who is fighting only for his own survival, is no Hitler. He’s not set to overrun an entire continent. And the ‘lessons of Munich’ and the dangers of appeasement are generally overdrawn.”