The Nazi/appeasement analogy

[mburbank]

" They don't have a leader that commands loyalty on even a remote par with Hitler."
-Me, making a point about why the Nazi analogy doesn't work.

"Unlike the Nazis, the Islamic fascists "answer" to the call of many leaders... dead ones...Muhammed ring a bell?"
-You making a point about... well, I'm not really sure.

I don't believe a dead person can be a leader. The instructions of the dead are alway open to interpretation, there is no method by which you can say which living persons interpretation is more valid and far from unifying, the words of dead lead almost inexorably to factionilization and power struggles. The "Islamic Facists" are not a group, do not recognize themselves as a group, cannot even put aside their fraticidal killing to focus fully on any common goals they may have. Ergo, the whole WWII anaolgy is useless as a tool for understanding, which is unsurprsing since it's intent is solely to influence the upcoming American elections.

I'm hardly in a position to criticize you for going off topic, but that analogy is what this thread is about.