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May 10, 2005

Agreeing to the Final Solution

World War II again being in the news this weekend, someone at church brought up the German people's complicity in Hitler's atrocities and said, "What I can't understand is how the German people could go along with Hitler's program."

Then, after a bit of discussion of the atrocities, this staunch Republican added, "And here we are getting all bent out of shape about what happened in a prison camp!" Clearly he was referring to the outrage over the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse--outrage that was, in his mind, obviously misplaced.

He did, however, answer his own question as to how the German people could go along with Hitler. The German government told them that Jews, homosexuals, and other "undesirables" were their enemy, out to destroy their beloved country, and that, therefore, any action taken by the government to rid them of this "threat" was justified. The United States government has told us that the prisoners at Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo, and elsewhere are our enemy, out to destroy our beloved country (never mind that the overwhelming majority were not terrorists at all), and that, therefore, any action taken by the government to rid us of this "threat" is justified. Those who get upset about the prisoner abuse are thus unpatriotic left-wingers who are more concerned with the rights of terrorists than with their own country.

Yeah, it's really hard to see how the German people could be persuaded to accept Hitler's "final solution."

Posted by Mike Tennant at May 10, 2005 01:03 PM

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