Fuhrer furor: is Milosevic a Hitler?
| Publisher | Reason Foundation |
| Publication | Reason |
| Subject | Humanities |
| Format | Magazine/Journal |
| ISSN | 0048-6906 |
| Issues per Year | 11 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Published | 1999-06-01 |
| Role | Type | Name |
| Author | n/a | Nick Gillespie |
| Person | Practice | Slobodan Milosevic |
The war in Yugoslavia (a war in fact if not in official declaration) has suffered no shortage of casualties, refugees, destruction - and overheated, overblown references to Adolf Hitler and Nazism.
As is usually the case, what in debating circles is known as the "reductio ad Hitlerum" doesn't advance rational disputation. Rather, it shifts debate into the realm of emotional response, where facts and logic matter less than feelings and passion. Such a tactic may sometimes be appropriate in the classroom or the kitchen, but it's certainly no way to conduct American foreign...
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