PLUS:
“Eisenhower: Der Führer’s Face song could endanger troops — no, wait…”
The idea that in wartime one should be careful not to do anything that the enemy is likely to respond to with irrational and even murderous anger may seem tactically wise at first glance, but ultimately it is a recipe for surrender. One is already accepting the enemy’s worldview and perspective, and working to accommodate it, instead of working on various fronts, not just the military one, to show why it is wrong and should be opposed.
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Agreed:
If burning a book endangers the troops, the troops should not be there in the first place.
We should just nuke the site from orbit. (…)
I assume this means David Petraeus is running as a Democrat in 2016…
LONDON, June 19, 1944 — The top American commander in Normandy has warned that plans by a small Florida church to burn copies of Mein Kampf on Tuesday, the anniversary of the Nazi invasion of Russia, could play into the hands of the very extremists at whom the church says it is directing that message.
