I don’t think Americans understand that to most of the world, Hitler is simply a guy who lost WWII, not the epitome of evil. That Hitler slaughtered his enemies is not a big moral concern for most of the world. They take that sort of thing for granted.
The Philippines are waging a real war on drugs, making the West look like wimps.
Rodrigo Duterte may be a model for what America can expect from Donald Trump. Or perhaps Bibi Netanyahu is a more likely model.
Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte on Friday compared his campaign to kill criminals to the Holocaust, saying he would like to “slaughter” millions of addicts just like Adolf hitler “massacred” millions of Jewish people.
“Hitler massacred three million Jews. Now, there are 3 million drug addicts. … I’d be happy to slaughter them,” he told reporters early Friday, according to GMA News.
“You know my victims, I would like to be, all criminals, to finish the problem of my country and save the next generation from perdition,” he said.
The comment was a response to critics who have likened him to Hitler. (An estimated 6 million Jewish people were killed in the Holocaust.)
Since Duterte swept to power in July, more than 3,300 Filipinos have been killed, either gunned down by police in late-night drug operations or felled by assassins, often after being named by police.
Victims of the extra-judicial killing spree are drug suspects — or those misidentified as drug suspects —named on police lists and targeted before they are charged or given the chance to stand trial. Often their bodies are dumped by the roadside with signs that read “pusher.”
The United States, the United Nations and the European Union have all expressed concern about the conduct of the “war on drugs.” When President Obama raised the issue, Duterte lashed out using a slang term that translates as “son of a whore.” When the European Parliament issued a statement, Duterte literally gave them the finger.
