Unfogging the fog of war #5: the enemy is evil
The ‘new Hitler’ tag is designed, like all war propaganda, to forestall critical thinking of the war in question, argues Chris Nineham The following leaders have all been described by western politicians and journalists as ‘the new Hitler’: Slobodan Milošević of Serbia, Mullah Omar of Afghanistan, Saddam Hussein of Iraq, Bashir Assad of Syria and Muammar Gaddafi of Libya.