Theos-Talk Archives (August 2005 Message tt00070)

I was reading the following in my mailbox and I can hardly believe 
that the TS would publish such rubbish. I am glad Bart has been 
brave enough to point out that there is really nothing right with 
this article and does NOT belong in the magazine.


"In the next article, "A Breath of Life for the Anonymous Dead,"
the author, Edward Tick, clearly dissociates actions from intent
by indiscriminately equating the Ann Frank House, the site of My
Lai, and Hiroshima. The first was a victim of a policy of
atrocities by a government. The second was individuals
representing government acting in a manner that the government
itself considered criminal where the perpetrators were tried,
found guilty, and imprisoned. As for the third, it represented
the attempts to free people like Ann Frank from oppression; the
oppression by the Japanese is even given in more detail by Tania
Dyett in a later article, "A Lesson Learned."

Tick later equates the extermination of the Holocaust, where the
Nazis systematically and purposely slaughtered millions of
innocent civilians, with the deaths of Iraqi civilians killed
during the current war in Iraq. He fails to mention that many
were killed by fellow Iraqis, that great efforts were made to
minimize the deaths of Iraqi civilians, and that the rate of
civilians being killed actually went considerably DOWN during and
after the invasion. Saddam Hussein killed civilians at a far
greater rate than have the American forces. Once again, intent
is ignored, the context is ignored, and only the action is
considered."


And finally, I think this sentence is the most offensive of all:

"where the Nazis systematically and purposely slaughtered millions of
innocent civilians..."

What innocent civilians did they slaughter? No such an animal. 

Netemara