Mad Social Scientist

Very nice post by TPM. He notes how crazy it is that Bush is still coy (and likely undecided) about what is actually going to happen on June 30 in Iraq (remember my post earlier today on how nice it would be if we really did talk more about what to do in Iraq?) He also points out the "stab in the back" argument is coming. This is what conservatives in Weimar Germany said in the 1920s; that Germany only lost WWI because the Social Democrats had "stabbed them in the back". Of course, its a lie, but it was an effective one. I've been waiting for a month and a half for it to appear. The R's have nothing else to throw at the Democrats, who have no power and have played no role in formulating or even debating Iraq policy.

But it disturbs me deeply that I instinctively reached for interwar Germany to predict the behavior of today's Republicans.