Tea With Hitler

Fuss and bother about Tea Party placards comparing Obama to Hitler. There should be Tea Parties for people who object to the fiscal irresponsibility, and to the wildly anti-conservative social effects, of neoliberal economics, of neoconservative foreign policy, and of a Healthcare Bill which had to be filleted of the public option (leaving only a gigantic taxpayer subsidy to the insurance companies – what is fiscally responsible about that?) and of the Stupak Amendment in order to appease Blue Dogs who voted against it anyway and wavering Republicans who turned out not to exist at all. There should also be May Day parades for those who object to the anti-worker effects of mass and illegal immigration, and of the erosion of America as an English-speaking country. Readers in the United States, get to it.

Meanwhile, if you believe in “al-Qaeda”, or in “the global terrorist network”, or in “Taliban” distinct from the Pashtun as a whole, or in any connection between Afghanistan and 9/11, or in any connection between Iraq and 9/11, or in WMD in Iraq, or in such WMD as a threat to America or Britain even if they had existed, or in an Iranian nuclear weapons programme, or in such a programme’s threat to America or Britain even if it existed, then you are in exactly the same position as if you were a birther, or a 9/11 truther, or a LaRouche supporter, or someone waving an Obama-Hitler placard at a Tea Party. Except that none of those people has ever caused a war.

We were right all along, to the extent that the larger party in the Coalition now pretends that it was always of our number, and the smaller party genuinely always was, as was one of the five Labour Leadership candidates, while three of the other four also pretend to have been. You, on the other hand, were wrong. Wrong on the defining issue for at least a generation. Wrong unforgettably. Wrong unforgivably.