Parálisis moral

Thoma Sowell se pregunta si los EEUU son la nueva Francia. Ese país tuvo la oportunidad de detener a Hitler en 1936 y no lo hizo y EEUU parece estar haciendo lo mismo con Irán.

No sé si será tan así. El trabajo de lidiar con Irán va a quedar para el próximo presidente. Más allá de la retórica proselitista, institucionalmente en EEUU está muy claro el riesgo que este régimen representa:

"Moral paralysis" is a term that has been used to describe the inaction of France, England and other European democracies in the 1930s, as they watched Hitler build up the military forces that he later used to attack them.

It is a term that may be painfully relevant to our own times.

Back in the 1930s, the governments of the democratic countries knew what Hitler was doing -- and they knew that they had enough military superiority at that point to stop his military buildup in its tracks. But they did nothing to stop him.
Instead, they turned to what is still the magic mantra today -- "negotiations."

No leader of a democratic nation was ever more popular than British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain -- wildly cheered in the House of Commons by opposition parties as well as his own -- when he returned from negotiations in Munich in 1938, waving an agreement and declaring that it meant "peace in our time."

We know now how short that time was. Less than a year later, World War II began in Europe and spread across the planet, killing tens of millions of people and reducing many cities to rubble in Europe and Asia.