07-24-2019, 03:32 PM
(This post was last modified: 07-24-2019, 10:19 PM by Warren Dew.)
(07-23-2019, 08:42 PM)John J. Xenakis Wrote: The broader picture is that I remain continually astonished that there
are three Holocausts going on today in three different countries
today, all targeting Sunni Muslims -- China's genocide and ethnic
cleansing of Uighurs and Kazakhs, Myanmar's (Burma's) genocide and
ethnic cleansing of Rohingyas, and Syria's (Bashar al-Assad's)
genocide and ethnic cleansing of his Arab Sunni enemies. After
hearing "Never Again!" over and over again for decades, referring to
the Nazi genocide targeting Jews, it continues to astonish me that
there are three Holocausts going on today, and nobody cares.
The Nazi holocaust was mostly objected to in retrospect. I strongly suspect a part of that was to justify the Allied bombing of hundreds of thousands or millions of civilians as the lesser evil - plus the fact that many Jewish German expatriates came to the US and formed a political lobby with an interest in keeping the memory of that holocaust alive.
After the crisis war, the current ethnic cleansings might loom larger. Then again, if we end up on the side of the Shiites and against the Sunnis as you predict, and if we win, we might just sweep it all under the rug.