Last week a Taiwanese nationalist found Chiang Kai-shek in a book listing the 100 most evil dictators of all time, and said something a bit foolish:
"[Since Chiang is on this list,] from the perspective of foreign academics, Chiang, Mussolini and Hitler were equally cruel."
Um, no. I could come up with a list of my 100 most favorite foods, and would probably like numbers 79 and 84 equally well. But I’m reasonably certain that I’d prefer #1 to #84.
Sorry, Chiang may have been bad, but he wasn’t Hitler. It’s not even close.