“Never Again?” Not yet!

Leonard Pitts Jr.’s commentary in the Aug 24, 2009 The Baltimore Sun, rightly decried the political association of today various political activities with those of Hitler’s and the Nazi’s. He noted that “to remake the Nazis as some kind of all-purpose boogeymen for slandering political enemies and scoring cheap rhetorical points” effectively minimizes the atrocities they committed. The 6 million Jews who died and whose deaths were so meticulously documented totally overshadow anything which is or has ever been seen in American politics as to make such comparisons laughable, if it were not for the ignorance and hatred they represent. Further, and I do not believe Mr. Pitts would disagree, the hell that the Nazis wrougth upon the earth can only be compared to similar, though less thoroughly documented, smaller atrocities. To and since that realm we must add many others such as China, North Korean, Congolese Civil War, Cambodia, Afghanistan, Rwanda, and Mozambique, etc. ad nauseam, all committed at the behest of various political and/or religious fanatical leaders. There is no end when differences are demonized and “Gott Mit Uns,” regardless of who the “Uns” is.