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Re:The War ISIS Wants by omginternets on Tuesday November 17, 2015 @07:39AM (#10580651)
It's also hard to imagine how not killing doesn't facilitate the vile activities of daesh.

I swear this is the late 1930's all over again. "Surely Herr Hitler will get tired of invading countries before he gets to France. Surely military action will only anger him more..."

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Re:The War ISIS Wants by vezzy-fnord on Tuesday November 17, 2015 @08:57AM (#10581015)
ISIS and the NSDAP are not even close to being similar geopolitical entities.
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Re:The War ISIS Wants by csallen on Tuesday November 17, 2015 @11:02AM (#10581902)
The purpose of analogy is not to say that two things are similar in every way.
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Re:The War ISIS Wants by vezzy-fnord on Tuesday November 17, 2015 @12:45PM (#10582714)
Except the two groups are starkly different in every way but irredentist and domineering ideology that the analogy is useless.
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Re:The War ISIS Wants by omginternets on Tuesday November 17, 2015 @03:29PM (#10583736)
Csallen is right: the point of the metaphor is that we're currently engaged in a knee-jerk pacifist reduction, and that it's not the first time we (the French) have done that in recent history.

You can tell me we learned our lesson during WWII, but that's just a proclamation of faith.

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Re:The War ISIS Wants by csallen on Tuesday November 17, 2015 @01:55PM (#10583165)
You're still missing the point. An analogy is not meant to show that two things are similar. Therefore responding by saying that they are, in fact, different doesn't refute anything.
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