Genocide 2006
When will WE ever learn, when will we EVER learn?
Ignoring Hitler did not stop the slaughter of European Jews.
Ignoring Hussein did not stop the Kurdish massacre.
Ignoring Rwanda did not stop the genocide against the Tutsis.
Ignoring Ben-Laden did not prevent the World Trade Center's destruction.
And now get ready for Sudan.
Yet, the same politicians who evacuated Europeans and Americans from Rwanda but were reluctant to resist the Hutu and to rescue native Rwandans are also engaging in the same kind of cowardly uncaring diplomacy as before.
Diplomacy only works when people are honorable and have respect for others. But egocentric dictators and those who will follow such people can not be stopped by diplomats whose idea of diplomacy is morally equivalent to Neville Chamberlain's betrayal of Poland.
Who knows, maybe there will be a movie sequel to Hotel Rwanda. Maybe it will also get nominated for three (Emmys) Academy Awards in the US and win the Audience Award at the AFI Fest. You Think?
Or maybe, there might be another Schindler's List.
I hope that something will be done to forcefully intervene and prevent the need to make another movie about a catastrophe which could have been stopped, if only peaceniks would realize that you can not prevent mass violence by ignoring the perpetrators. But anyone who actually seeks to prevent al-Bashir and his henchmen will be accused of "war-mongering."
Yet the war exists whenever and wherever, the Invader and the Mass Murderer strikes even if your own country sits on its backside and pretends that they are supporting peace. The Japanese Pacific war did not begin in December 1941, but rather in 1937 with the attack upon China.
Remember September 1, 1939
Remember December 7, 1941
Remember September 11, 2001
Do not pretend that there is no war, when Guns are firing and bombs are exploding. As was written over 2500 years ago: "They have healed also the hurt of My people lightly, saying: 'Peace, peace', when there is no peace."
Ignoring Hitler did not stop the slaughter of European Jews.
Ignoring Hussein did not stop the Kurdish massacre.
Ignoring Rwanda did not stop the genocide against the Tutsis.
Ignoring Ben-Laden did not prevent the World Trade Center's destruction.
And now get ready for Sudan.
Yet, the same politicians who evacuated Europeans and Americans from Rwanda but were reluctant to resist the Hutu and to rescue native Rwandans are also engaging in the same kind of cowardly uncaring diplomacy as before.
Diplomacy only works when people are honorable and have respect for others. But egocentric dictators and those who will follow such people can not be stopped by diplomats whose idea of diplomacy is morally equivalent to Neville Chamberlain's betrayal of Poland.
Who knows, maybe there will be a movie sequel to Hotel Rwanda. Maybe it will also get nominated for three (Emmys) Academy Awards in the US and win the Audience Award at the AFI Fest. You Think?
Or maybe, there might be another Schindler's List.
I hope that something will be done to forcefully intervene and prevent the need to make another movie about a catastrophe which could have been stopped, if only peaceniks would realize that you can not prevent mass violence by ignoring the perpetrators. But anyone who actually seeks to prevent al-Bashir and his henchmen will be accused of "war-mongering."
Yet the war exists whenever and wherever, the Invader and the Mass Murderer strikes even if your own country sits on its backside and pretends that they are supporting peace. The Japanese Pacific war did not begin in December 1941, but rather in 1937 with the attack upon China.
Remember September 1, 1939
Remember December 7, 1941
Remember September 11, 2001
Do not pretend that there is no war, when Guns are firing and bombs are exploding. As was written over 2500 years ago: "They have healed also the hurt of My people lightly, saying: 'Peace, peace', when there is no peace."
posted by Shewmaker at 2:54 PM
1 Comments:
Excellent reminders. You should check out the book "They Thought They Were Free: The Germans 1933-45" by Milton Mayer.
It was originally published in 1955, updated in 1966, and recently showed up in a lot of book stores.
Very sobering.
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