Hitler deconstructed

Victor Davis Hanson strikes again. I don't have quite the time or the inclination to write too long a post about this, but there are not enough words to offer in praise for this open:

The effort to remove fascists in the Middle East and jump-start democracy, for all its ups and downs, has been opposed not just by principled critics who bristled at tactics and strategy, but also by peculiarly vehement cynics here and abroad — whose disgust was so often in direct proportion to their relative political impotence.

Many of them live here.