In a recent appearance (11 Sept. 2016) on ABS's "This Week" Giuliani flippantly stated, in response to a questions about the legality of plundering an invaded and occupied country's resources, that "... of course it is legal, it's a war (laughing), until the war is over, anything is legal." This statement is, in my opinion (IMO), exactly what Sinclair was talking about. There is no more fitting picture to go with the quote than a picture of Giuliani wrapped in an American Flag and carrying a cross.
In his current capacity as a Trump shill, Giuliani represents extreme American nationalism, which is nothing more than the dark shade of American fascism. The blind faith in American exceptionalism has led to this widespread belief that America, by definition, is always right, no matter what its actions. Trump has clearly indicated that he believes this without much reservation, which led him to make the following comments:
Trump, Feb. 17, 2016: "Torture works. OK, folks? You know, I have these guys—”Torture doesn’t work!”—believe me, it works. And waterboarding is your minor form. Some people say it’s not actually torture. Let’s assume it is. But they asked me the question: What do you think of waterboarding? Absolutely fine. But we should go much stronger than waterboarding"
Trump, Dec. 3, 2015: The other thing with the terrorists is you have to take out their families, when you get these terrorists, you have to take out their families. They care about their lives, don't kid yourself. When they say they don't care about their lives, you have to take out their families,"
My Point Is: Trump / Giuliani and, IMO the GOP in general, are willing to commit war crimes and crimes against humanity, which includes genocides, to achieve their Machiavellian goal of world dominance. This idea that all is fair in war and nothing is illegal, which can be accurately construed to also mean, nothing is immoral or inhuman, is the exact thinking that led to the holocaust and the genocide in the former Yugoslavia.
The Germans of the 1930s did not vote for a genocide or a Holocaust, however, they nonetheless voted for and (more or less) democratically elected a person who was capable of carrying out a genocide. Trump is also such a man. He is not the first in America who has been capable of creating another Holocaust, but he is the first to be in a position to actually have the power to do so.
Don't believe it can't happen. History has a nasty way of repeating itself.
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