++As any reader knows, I am preoccupied by everything to do with the Holocaust. To see it used as a frequently used metaphor in our political debates is disturbing, unless you are taking about preventing genocide. Why the Holocaust has reared its ugly head during the Obama Administration,I'll let the reader ponder that question.
++But ,O great human rights defenders,could we be honest about the United States performance in genocide situations. The United States ignored the Holocaust, even turning German Jews back when they came by ship to the Caribbean. We ignored the Armenian genocide and can't even call it that too to his day. We ignored Stalin's enforced famine in the Ukraine. We ignored the great purges in the Soviet Union and only used them to score political points. We ignored the slaughter of millions in Mao's China. We ignored Year Zero of the Khmer Rouge, a situation that prompted George McGovern to call for returning to Southeast Asia. We ignored the Rwanda massacres even though ,yes, we could have easily prevented them. No wonder Bill Clinton keeps apologizing for them.
++We used the Holocaust as a nickname for some awful thing our political opponent may or may not do. But we all have pledged "Never Again." But these situations keep occurring again and we allow them to happen again and again.
++The international community shares culpability in these situations. We had the Nuremberg Trial and the development of the International Criminal Court to deal with these situations. Prevention of genocide is built in to the post-WW II international order. But it is ignored.
++We supplied the gas that smelled like apples for Saddam Hussein to drop on the Kurds. And we knew the Kurds were being exterminated.
++The only thing Bibi's resistance to the Iran Deal has going for him is that his concern about another attempt --this time is against Israel--is real and based on the fact no one would help. A chilling thought.
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