“I confess I had no desire to die in a Southeast Asian rice paddy,” wrote John R. Bolton in his Yale 25th Reunion Book. Despite this personal aversion to the dirty business of combat, the former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations–a man who is (to paraphrase an AA Gill quote) to diplomacy what boxing gloves are to onanism–seems to have little compunction about sending other Johnnies marching off the war.Covering a recent speech by Bolton, the Daily Telegraph reports him claiming that “a nuclear Iran would be as dangerous as ‘Hitler marching into the Rhineland’ in 1936 and should be prevented by Western military strikes if necessary.” It seems that Bolton assumes his audience has the recall of goldfish or is simply lobotomized, expecting people to be flabbergasted by the freshness and audacity of the parallels. Gee, I suppose when you think about, that Iranian guy Ahmed Dinnerjacket and Adolf are kinda similar. . . But didn’t we just kill some other Nazi?If the Bush Administration has already decided to bomb the crap out of Iran, it and its PR people(the three stooges of Hitchens, Kristol, and Krauthammer, for example) might have to freshen up their war mongering to prevent the uncomfortable Saddam query being raised. To help lift them out of a rhetorical rut, I suggest avoiding the following “crutch” words in the run-up to pushing the boulder away from some new hell-mouth:MunichHitlerthe NazisNeville ChamberlainWinston ChurchillThe tiles of any books by the latter figureAppeasement CzechoslovakiaPolandThe RhinelandThe League of Nations (esp. in comparison with the UN)193619381939You don’t think comparing the Iranian president to Kaiser Bill is a runner? You could use the whole Dreadnought race as your WMD metaphor. Any takers? Is that the Weekly Standard calling?