Never again.
That is the lesson that we Americans should be learning from the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. Never again ... will Germans kill Jews in Poland.
The author then goes on to name several cases where murder on a massive scale has happened since the end of World War II.
Actually, what "Never again" means to the Jews is that they will not allow another Holocaust to be perpetrated upon them. In the larger sense, it means that the nations of the world should not allow another tyrannical government to engage in the systematic mass murder of a large portion of the population. Certainly the world has not succeeded; the depredations of Stalin, Mao, and Pol Pot are examples of such horror. Yes, this type of activity has happened in Iraq as well. My question, however, is who was in power when it happened? Answer: Saddam Hussein. If anything that happened at Abu Ghraib is comparable to what happened at Auschwitz, it's what Saddam ordered to be done there before the United States removed him from power. In contrast, what happened after pales into near insignificance.
To my extreme gratification, the comments in The Daily Texan's forum regarding this editorial are, so far, unanimous in their rejection of the author's views. Perhaps there's hope after all.
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