re: #353 Obdicut

Do you understand that that actual stated policy of the Nazi government was the eradication of the Jews? That they had a conference, and agreed that the Jews would be enslaved, worked to death, and entirely eradicated?

If the US government supported the genocide of the Sunni population of Iraq, there would be no Sunnis left in Iraq.

Did we shamefully fail to prevent ethnic cleansing, cynically, even turn a blind eye to it? Yes.

Is this in any way the same as building Auschwitz-Birkenau and sending train after train there, to work, slave, and die? To select group after group— Jews, gypsies, homosexuals— who were to be entirely eradicated?

No.

All things are not the same.

As somebody above pointedly reinded me, we did engage in state sponsored genocide of Native Americans, but that is another topic.

I do not believe you do yourself any favors when you try to equivicate between evil actions on one scale and similar evil actions on a lesser scale..and that is what you are doing.

We tortured people to death, and nobody will ever be held responsible in our lifetimes. We stood by as literally tens of thousands of people who expected our protection were tortured to death and beheaded by the very people we paid and gave training to. in Iraq

Yeah, the Nazis did even more damage. Somehow, I don’t feel that is such a great bar to have to clear, ya know?