Nationalism: Always the Same

In light of the Guiliani/Paul dust up at the Republican debate this week here's a quote from Ludwig von Mises in Omnipotent Government that provides further illumination.

"[Y]ou simply cannot argue with nationalists. The Germans are fully convinced that compulsion applied by them to other nations is fair and just, while compulsion applied to themselves is criminal."

I believe there is a hard-core minority of the American population that thinks as Mises's Germans of seventy years ago did. This ethos on the part of this hard-core minority is one of the important pillars that supports the continued war on Iraq.