With Iran Talking Genocide, Obama Must Show Courage
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Sept. 4 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. has often been feckless inits response to genocide. In the years leading up to World WarII, and even during the war itself, it didn’t do nearly what itcould have to offer refuge to Europe’s Jews and to thwart AdolfHitler’s Final Solution, although much later we did build someexcellent museums commemorating the event.
Our words since then have sometimes rung hollow. “Neveragain,” the slogan goes, but, as David Rieff once said, inactual practice “never again” has meant, “Never again willGermans kill Jews in Europe in the 1940s.”