#7 can we please stop generalizing about liberals, esp on stuff like this.
Liberal hawks like Paul Berman and radicals lkke Christopher Hitchens were talking about the horrors of the Iraqi regime when the Bush admin was focusing on WMDs and 9/11 links in the apparent belief that they couldnt make intervention for human rights work. and judging from what folks here say about humanitarian interventions ELSEWHERE, Im not sure Bush was wrong - its REAL hard to get support for humanitarian interventions,even, perhaps especially, from conservatives.
Now, yeah, there are plenty of lefties who are deadset against humanitarian intervention, who thinks its all imperialist, yadda yadda. But I daresay they are NOT among the people who are most focused on the Nazi genocide and the West moral obligations.
Im also not sure where in "Schindlers List" Spielberg said anything in particular about the West. That movie was mainly based on a book anyway.
Ive been supportive of the Iraq war, heavily (though not only) on humanitarian grounds for a long time. Even when ive taken flak from the left. And from the right, whether for believing arabs capable of democracy, or for thinking that our force presence wasnt large enough given all that was at stake.
Talk about the horror of the graves yes. But let it speak for itself, dont demean those deaths by using it for partisan advantage, a partisan advantage that in this case is not warranted. |
All my life I have been told that the US and other countries stood by and did nothing while the Nazi's committed genocide. From "Judgement at Nuremberg" to "Schindler's List" we were reminded of the shame we must carry.