Someone left a Vanity Fair magazine (October 2003) on a table at work.  I picked it up.  I’ve never read it…and I had heard that the articles can be quite titillating and interesting.

I haven’t made it past the editor’s letter. 

He is talking about the same things that come out in Farhenheit 9/11:  the Saudis being ushered out of the country and comparing it to WWII and what would have happened if Roosevelt had done the same with Hitler’s family and other wealthy Germans.

Interesting concepts.

The most important passage, though, is this:

“People don’t want war…but [they] can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders.  That is easy.  All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger.”

~Hitler’s Luftwaffe chief and designated successor, Hermann Goring, to a psychologist in 1946, at the time of the Nuremberg war-crimes trials.