John Mcyntire at RCP posts his reaction to the 60 Minutes interview with Iranian President Ahmadinejad:

I found the interview itself quite disturbing. Much has been written about the similarities between today and the 1930’s in relation to appeasing Ahmadinejad and Iran, but there was something about the man’s demeanor and appearance that I found eerily similar to Adolf Hitler. In the late 1920’s and early ’30’s Hitler was written off as a sort of silly looking rabble rouser by the real powers behind the scenes in Weimer Germany. Even as late as January 1933 when Hitler assumed the Chancellorship, much of the German “establishment” thought that he could be controlled. They were, of course, wrong.

We see similar stories today, speculating on how Ahmadinejad is really just a pawn used to placate the masses and really doesn’t have control and/or make the actual decisions in Iran. We’ll see.

I found his answers to Wallace extremely cunning, crafty and dangerous. You can almost hear Hitler spouting out “grievances” of the Sudentland Germans and the Germans in Danzig when you hear Ahmadinejad take up for the Palestinians, Lebanese, and Iraqis. Granted, Hitler controlled one of the most powerful and advanced societies in the world by the late-1930’s, and Ahmadinejad’s Iran is far lower on the scale as a threat to project force. However, Ahmadinejad is making a play in many ways to speak for the world’s one billion “aggrieved” Muslims, where Hitler only professed to speak on behalf of a mere 100 million Germans.

I also watched the interview. It was crystal clear that the Iranian President had his own version of truth in which he was solely interested. I would call him delusional, but that might imply that he is not a man who should be taken very seriously.

UPDATE: Watch the interview here.

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