re: #170 Tigger2005

But can you honestly say you would have done something different, if you’d been in charge, in the same situation? The fact is the Russian people were bearing the brunt of the struggle against the Nazis, paying an incalculable cost in blood and treasure while the American people and to a lesser extent even the British and French were spared the pure hell that was the war on the Eastern Front. The fear of losing Russia as an ally (as had already happened once) was palpable. Maybe we could have handled this better (we certainly could have after the war was over). But I find it difficult to judge or second-guess decisions made during the war itself. One major exception is our abject failure to do more to save the Jews. That was inexcusable.

And actually, I shouldn’t have said “do MORE to save the Jews.” Because beyond doing our bit to win the war, we did absolutely fucking nothing to help the Jews. We could have taken hundreds of thousands of them in. We could have bombed the train tracks leading to the death camps, and the death camps themselves. We didn’t. There is no excuse.