The "N" Word

Interesting piece over at Crooks and Liars on Hitler and Godwin's Law. Greenwald seems to be addressing the NeoCon's insistance on an equivalency between Hitler and whoever they have decided to capriciously take out. In psychology, I think they call this projection, and this is what bothers me about Greenwald's assertion: He makes no distinction between a legitimate comparison of Hitler/Fascism to anything now because the people now have not reached the Hitleriffic peaks of sadism. Godwin's Law, of course, allows for this, but Greenwald's link in defining the law is faulty.

Personally, I'd rather compare and illuminate fascist tendencies now than wait for catastrophic human damage to prove a comparison apt. It is almost as though, in backhanded way, he is silencing the Left on this, and helping the NeoCon agenda by making that comparision fallacious.