After Napoleon, Hitler and Saddam is it not proof enough that military power corrupts most and finishes both?

Question

It finishes the power and the holder both.

Answer 1

Saddam as compared with Napoleon and Hitler was a Pygmy though, in essence all belonged to the same category with difference in degree. All were megalomaniac. Eisenhower and MC Arthur were public leaders and not Army men after they got the mandate of the people.

It is a lesson from history that power corrupts and corrupt military power kills both.

Answer 2

Nope. Check out Spain under Franco. He was a military dictator in control of Spain for decades and slowly transferred it from a Facist government into a blooming democracy. Franca was never corrupted by power.

Also, Cuba's Castro. He has had military control of that country for more than half a century. I guess you could argue whether or not he is corrupted by power or not. His only undoing will be age.

Russia's Stalin was corrupted by power, but he also passed away peacefully never paying for his crimes.

Those are modern examples, but you could make similar arguments for the Alexander the Great, British Empire, ancient Rome's Casears and China's Dynasties.

If you are a romantic, I think you statement makes a lot of sense. However, if you apply it to history, I think you will find its not always the case. Great question.

Answer 3

You are talking about dictators that used the military to conquer other countries.
Napoleon wanted to rule the known world.
Hitler wanted to rule Europe.
Saddam wanted to rule the middle east.
Each was corrupt and used their military to attain their goals.
Military power does not corrupt in a free society like America.
Any time any one person like Hitler, Castro, Saddam has total control over a countries military trouble is just around the corner.
That is how Castro came to power, Saddam and Ho CHI Mien and PO Pat also.
That does not mean the military is corrupt.

Answer 4

I wouldn't group Napoleon with those other two. Just to play the devil's advocate, the U.S. is proof that a nation, for the first time ever in all of history, can be the sole superpower of the world. There was Russia back when it was a nuclear power to be feared, but that's all past now. My point is, the U.S. is not corrupt in the sense that you mean. Nobody is digging mass graves for the political dissenters. And if you silently thought "not yet," just now, I can only say I have way too much faith in the U.S. to ever believe that could happen.

Answer 5

How can you have Napleon, Hitler and Saddam in the same sentence. Saddam was nothing hardly nothing like Hitler or Napoleon. Saddm was a little school boy compared to them two. You Americans and Blair have just hyped him up because you wanted oil. Thats the real reason why Iraq was invaded. Not because os so called WMDs.

Answer 6

Napoleon, yes. Hitler, yes. Saddam? Military power? Nah, he didn't really create a large enough army to almost take all of Europe (not even the Middle East). I don't think Saddam can fit in as one of the notorious military leaders ever. Though some people still see Napoleon as a hero, though depends on how you view it, he didn't kill millions of Jewish people while he was in power.

Answer 7

Napoleon and Hitler have been the two certainly one of under in many circumstances going on stature, see a trend? Napoleon and Hitler the two had black hair, see a trend? Napoleon and Hitler the two attained the rank of Corporal in the army, see a trend? Napoleon and Hitler the two have been male, see a trend? Napoleon and Hitler the two parted their hair on the main appropriate side, see a trend? Trivial similarities fail to instruct a causal courting. diverse the folk of Europe have been 'raised Christian' in the process the era of Napoleon and Hitler meaning each and every of the above listed similarities are much less person-friendly than the 'religious' concept they have been raised yet no person with a lick of expertise would assert a causal courting in keeping with those similarities!

Answer 8

No, that is not true. What is does prove is that humans are still very capable of being fooled and taken advantage of at times. We have just been taken down the roads of fools by the Bush Administration with the Iraq War. They believed their own propaganda.
And, democrats did not originally fight hard enough to stop them at the gate because they were dispirited by Clinton's failure and by a right wing Republican trap.
History proves that the Democrats should never take their eye off the Republicans no matter what else is going on.
Like in Baseball, you need spies to watch the opposition all the time, professional spies.Their game is to trap the Democrats. They don't have a good game plan or the players to do a good and responsible job. Just do the job and we will kick butt.

Answer 9

Not just military power, but that control over so many people. The military just supports that power. They liked to believe they were superior to their followers.

Answer 10

Forget everything - come straight to the Point...
Strength is the Only factor...
So, why blame N.Korea or Iran or....
Everybody is human --- Every country is Strong.... Period.
Though everyone has their way or philosophy.

Consequently, there will be no interference by any one in anything... So no more conflicts of opinion similar to Family affairs...