Murray N. Rothbard

About the Author: Murray N. Rothbard is editor of the Rothbard-Rockwell Report, a publication of the Centerfor Libertarian Studies in Burlingame, California. The following article was written in October 1990.

Let's examine the arguments for the U.S. march into Arabia and its war against Iraq.

"He's Another Hitler!" Oh come on, knock off the Hitler analogy already. What are you saying, for God's sake? That "if we don't stop him on the Euphrates, we'll have to fight him in the streets of New York""

Wouldn't it be great, by the way, if everyone observed a moratorium on Hitler for at least a year? No more "another Hitler" every time someone starts a war someplace, no more bellyaching about Hitler in general. There is more hysteria now, 45 years after his death...