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This Is Scary --Islamic State's Tactics Are Really Similar to Nazi Germany's
2015-05-06
Interesting.
It's easy to get into trouble comparing wars to each other. There are still lots of differences between Islamic State and the Nazis. Even bigger is the gap between the forces fighting their respective enemies in the past and present.

For one, from our reporting in the country, Iraq's different and divided armies appear unwilling or unable to mount an offensive toward Mosul anytime soon. There's a lot we don't know - but it wouldn't be surprising if this war dragged on for years.

Yet there's a demonstrable limit to Islamic State's reliance on attacking at all costs. In the final year of World War II, German armies repeatedly threw themselves into surreal and self-destructive attacks under orders from Nazi leader Adolf Hitler.

Their armies included children and old men - and their job was only to delay the inevitable. They largely failed, and the human toll was tragic.
Posted by:Blossom Unains5562

#9  The Muslim was and are enthralled with the Nazi. Look at the military uniforms. Bath party of Saddam with the goose step for an example. They also are drawn to the occult and magic. Many similarities in my opinion.
Posted by: Dale   2015-05-06 19:13  

#8  Sheikh Hassan al-Banna
Posted by: mossomo   2015-05-06 11:57  

#7  Baath Party ideology is based on European Fascist Socialism. Islamic State is the Baath Party remnants that fled to Syria disguised (legitimized?) with a veneer of jihadist rhetoric.
Posted by: Eohippus Thigum6400   2015-05-06 08:51  

#6  Any movement that treats humans as cattle for the 'great cause' behaves similarly. One of the distinguishing differences between classical Western thought and the embodiment of the 'individual' over that of various movements for the party/state/god in which one is considered just a cog. In their view, you exist to serve the state rather than the state exists to serve you.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2015-05-06 07:57  

#5  Hey just a carry over from the last century, the NAZIs had a "soft spot" for their muslim counterparts and the successor east german stazi helped train muslims in the last part of the 20th century. why are you all surprised ?
Posted by: Gruling Lumplump6227   2015-05-06 07:36  

#4  Except for, oh, lacking an industrial base, any sort of martial tradition, or producing someone along the lines of Heinz Guderian. But it's early days yet.
Posted by: ed in texas   2015-05-06 07:34  

#3  This Is Scary --Islamic State's Left's tactics Are Really Similar to Nazi Germany's [too].
Posted by: JohnQC   2015-05-06 07:11  

#2  All ideologies which support the elimination of a given race, theology, age group, or gender are frightening.

The 'Islamic State' has it's distant cousins in the West. I'll leave it at that.
Posted by: Besoeker   2015-05-06 06:21  

#1  Except for having a Wermacht?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2015-05-06 02:41  

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