The climax of Bush's speech was his pledge never to give up the fight against terrorism and all that goes with it. There will be only one victor in this battle, he declared - terrorism or the American people - and the people of America will prevail.It was just so typically Bush.
Except it wasn't. And that's what made the strange feeling. In the original, Bush was Hitler, terrorism was Marxism, and American/America was German/Germany. The quote is from a book review of a biography of Hitler published in Haaretz for February 6, describing a speech Hitler gave on January 11, 1933, shortly after his election as chancellor.
The reviewer goes on to quote the author of another book about Hitler as saying
In Nazism, especially Hitler's version of it, history was a confrontation between unalterable good and unalterable bad. The outcome could only be envisaged in religious terms - annihilation or salvation.Change Nazism to anti-terrorism and Hitler's to Bush's and we're back to where we started from and that strange chill.
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