I was just writing to a friend in Europe,
explaining that some Americans still believe that
Saddam Hussein was responsible for the 9/11
attack, and that he was in cahoots with Bin
Laden. Europeans find it difficult to believe
that anyone still buys that. They shouldn't,
because a leading European statesman explained and perfected the technique:
"The art of leadership . . . consists in
consolidating the attention of the people against
a single adversary and taking care that nothing
will split up that attention. . . . The leader of
genius must have the ability to make different
opponents appear as if they belonged to one category."
Adolf Hitler (18891945), Mein Kampf, vol. 1, ch. 3 (1925).
- Jed
