You mean that you were not(or would not have been) outraged as long as Hitler was
ethnically cleansing Jews, Gypsies and Catholics(INSIDE THE BORDERS of
Germany!) and did not encroach on Czech etc.
Outraged, of course. Willing to bring the extremes of political and economic pressure to bear, yes. Willing to bomb Berlin, no.
We Americans, as prisoners of our history, have a penchant for feeling that picking up a gun and shooting somebody is a natural way to solve social problems. We have fewer guns per per capita than many other countries, but one of the highest murder rates in the world. We arm all our police and many private security guards. We have the largest Presidential security force in the world. (Castro used to, and as far as I know still does, walk around Havana with NO security. Just watch Bill Clinton stroll around downtown Washington with no security.)
Guns are NOT the best answer to most problems. That's a lesson we still haven't learned. In that, we are morally way behind most of the rest of the world. |
