The Myth of the Stab in the Back


	The Myth of the Stab in the Back

ratilfar

7-19-2007 11:57 PM

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myth, conservatism, scapegoatm, lies, war

ratilfar says:

It happened to the Germans after WW1, it happened to the U.S. after Vietnam and now it is happening again. Those who lie, cheat and steal accuse their victims of treason and almost always get away with it.

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                                       As the United States staggers past the third anniversary of its misadventure in Iraq, the dagger is already poised, the myth
                                       is already being perpetuated. To understand just how this strategy is likely to unfold—and why this time it may well fail—we
                                       must return to the birth of a legend.
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                                       I. It was Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg himself, the leading German hero of the war, who told the National Assembly, “As
                                       an English general has very truly said, the German army was ‘stabbed in the back.’”
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