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To: Lane3 who wrote (8432)4/11/2002 6:43:59 PM
From: epicure  Read Replies (1) of 21057
 
I think one major difference is that the Jews were powerless to fight back. The Holocaust involved eradicating Jews who had little or no power to halt their destruction, while we are a great country more than able to extract vengeance for an act of terrorism against our country. We have, after all, leveled a country (which was already leveled) in response to 9/11.

I think it also minimizes the Holocaust to compare the slight loss of life on 9/11 with millions of Jews and others killed in the Holocaust. Most comparisons with the Holocaust are not apt because so few tragedies have the scope of the Holocaust. It is best not to compare other events with it, unless the loss of life is outrageous, and the victims are blameless civilians, whose only crimes is being of a different race of religion. Just my opinion.

There are other problems with the comparison, but those two bother me the most.
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