Good, I’m glad. Hans Frank, who got religion just before they hanged him, said “A thousand years will pass, and the guilt of Germany will still not have been erased.” By Frank’s calculation, Germany still has 937 years to go. They’re still on probation till the year 2946 A.D.

Back then, we had a concept of “enemy aliens”–a citizen of Germany or Japan who happened to be living in the U.S. at the time the U.S. went to war. The FBI, under FDR’s Justice Department, rounded them all up and deported them. Your liberals of the 1930s didn’t have a problem with that.

Because back then, liberals were tough-minded and deeply patriotic. It was liberals who were saying “America–love it or leave it.” It was the AFL-CIO which gave covert assistance to the resistance movements in foreign lands.

They weren’t the modern flower-child “foo-foos” (to use AFL-CIO boss George Meany’s term), who flee from the thought of actually being tougher than our enemies.

There are no wanted posters of known Nazi criminals in German post offices, and discussions of the subject among average Germans is almost non-existant. In fact, I find it hard to draw even my very close German friends into a discussion of the war and aftermath. Perhaps they speak of the war in darkened rooms where no foreigners are present, I don’t know.

There is an irony in the prosecution of this russian thug. Perhaps even a politically motivated statement is being made by the prosecutor, who knows?

For all the talk of holocaust deniers that one hears from time to time, in Germany the holocaust is undeniably interwoven in the souls of the people and is a great and lasting shame. And it will remain so for generations.

All radicals, whether Muslim or others are one our greatest threats. Rep Wolf (VA) seems to understand the problem, but has gotten scant cooperation or attention from anyone else.

In the case of Darfur, I could see that playing out in the various articles on DailyKOS. One side argued that the U.S. government should take a stand against what was happening in Darfur. The other side argued that the U.S. has no right to speak out, because of our own alleged genocide against the American Indians or whatever.

Earlier, you saw that same cognitive dissonance regarding the ethnic cleansing in the Balkans. The Left is so accustomed to protesting *against* U.S. foreign and military policy, that they have a lot of trouble getting themselves into a mindset of actually *urging* the U.S. to take some kind of action. So in the case of the Balkans, the Left protested the ethnic cleansing–and then after the Clinton Administration used military force to try to stop it, they protested that too!